[radical-revolution]

Have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance

Chögyam Trungpa

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[wayti-blog]

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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Thomas Wright, The Pleiades c.1711-1786

[undinesea]

These are my sanctuaries: music that stirs, nature that heals, poetry that whispers, and solitude that understands.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to poet Boris Pasternak

[dimensional-tourist]

What you need will come to you, if you do not ask for what you do not need. Yet only few people reach this state of complete dispassion and detachment. It is a very high state, the very threshold of liberation.

Nisargadatta Marharaj

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[philosophybits]

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

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[philosophybits]

“Be silent. Listen. Let it overflow.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951

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[thoughtkick]

“The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.”

— Mandy Hale

[philosophybits]

“The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity’s prime characteristic.”

— Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas

[philosophybits]

“I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”

— Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”

[orofeaiel]

"I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us as with a match, which is lit, and bright, but does not hurt in the common way, but delightfully, as if delight were the most serious thing you ever felt."

-Mary Oliver, Snow Geese

[radical-revolution]

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

…are you the physical body (the fragile bulb) or the consciousness (the eternal light) within it? Campbell argued that we should identify with the consciousness, allowing us to accept the body’s decline while understanding our true, enduring nature.