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“The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26”
“As a phenomenon, life has a beginning and ending, but life itself doesn’t. So, which one is truly me - a phenomenon that lasts only between birth and death, or life itself that underlies all phenom...”
“While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.”
“Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.”
“As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real”
“That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.”
“Wear yourself proudly.”
“Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.”
“Uh, listen here mister. We got no way understandin’ this world. We got about as much sense of it as bird flyin’ in the sky. There’s a lot that bird don't know, though it don’t change the fact the w...”
“I stop at the tune store, where I'm greeted by Javier and Jules. Half the store is Javier's, half is Jules's—they have entirely different musical tastes, so you have to know going in whether the tu...”
“As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”
“.Fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..”
“.the fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..”
“When someone sees the same people every day(...)they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someoneisn't what others want them to be, the others ...”
“The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.”
“I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we d...”
“Slow down to speed up. Anonymous”
“You Tavi,” he answered her, putting her mind to rest. “You’re his legacy, everything he was, he taught you, passed himself on through you in a father daughter bond. He was very proud of the young w...”
“Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which y...”
“The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.”
