Wild, Ancient & Eternal

Quotes That Resonate

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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

— Ram Dass

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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

— Ram Dass

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We're all just walking each other home.

— Ram Dass

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on a purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

— Joseph Campbell

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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!

— Wei Wu Wei

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Having never left the house you are looking for the way home.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

— Ramana Maharshi

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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

— Ramana Maharshi

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Be present as the watcher of your mind—of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

— Eckhart Tolle

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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

— Ramakrishna

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It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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The Welsh phrase, 'I ddod yn Ôl at fy ngoed' — meaning 'to return to a balanced state of mind' — literally translates as "to come back to my trees."

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Tripping Over Joy

What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint?

The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God

And that the Beloved Has just made such a Fantastic Move

That the saint is continually Tripping over Joy And bursting out in Laughter And saying, “I Surrender!”

Whereas, my dear, I am afraid you still think You have a thousand serious moves.

— Daniel Ladinsky, inspired by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz

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Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

— Alan Watts