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The ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their past deeds—their prārabdha karma. Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try how hard you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is for one to be silent.

Sri Ramana Maharshi’s upadesha (spiritual instruction) to his mother in 1898

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The mechanics of time. The realm of nature. 1894.

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She is a flawless, inviolable gem. A deranged gem.

Yukio Mishima, "Hanjo" from Five Modern Noh Plays (trans. Donald Keene)

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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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If it involves mountains, breakfast food, coffee or campfires- I’m in. 

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Ursula Wirtz, Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation

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A window of a temple in Kyoto, Japan. 2013

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Kerry James Marshall, Silence is Golden (detail), 1986.

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“Demon flying over the Caucasus” by Mihály Zichy, 1881

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« Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. The genuine lover always perceives the beloved as someone who has a totally separate identity. Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. […] It is the separateness of the partners that enriches the union. Great marriages cannot be constructed by individuals who are terrified by their basic aloneness, as so commonly is the case, and seek a merging in marriage. »

— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled