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There is freedom in relinquishing certainty- author unknown
hilippe Petit suspended between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan, August 7, 1974
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca.
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Jesus and the Pharisees
There is courage involved if you want tobecome truth
-Rumi
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Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believethe truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow
themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the waythey are
- Wayne Dyer
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Kennon Sheldon, a psychologist at the University of Missouri atColumbia. "We consistently find that people who say money is mostimportant to them are (the unhappiest),
"Studies of lottery winners found that within a year, most saythat they are no happier than they were before they won."
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He who is not contented with what he has,would not be contented with what he would like to have.
-Socrates (B.C. 469 399)
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e trut s t at our nest moments are most e y to occur w en weare feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is
only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likelyto step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer
answers. M. Scott Peck (1936-2005)
Nelson Mandela in prison
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is anoptical delusion of our consciousness - Albert Einstein
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Your key to freedom lies in your power to controlyour thoughts- Tim Connor
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Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happeningall at once.
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The infinite is in
the finite of everyinstant
- Zen Proverb
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Put your heart, mind, and soulinto even your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success.- Swami Sivananda
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Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need
of continuous check in themirror or silverware, keep usin thrall to ourselves,
concerned with our surfaces.- Carolyn Kizer
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If you buy one of the advertised sofas, you too will be immune tolifes disasters and while youre sitting on that very sofa you can be
sure youll only ever feel happy and content. This is advertisingFACT.
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The Joy of Not Being SoldAnything
Woman of the Himba tribecolouring eyebrows
Native American girlWoman from the Bas-Congo tribe
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"You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. Youare not the car you drive. You arenot how much money is in yourwallet. You are not your fuckingkhakis.
You are the all-singing, all-dancingcrap of the world."
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We would often be sorry if our wisheswere gratified.
-Aesop (c. B.C. 555)
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholdsher own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the moreperfect one is.
-Sren Kierkegaard (18131855), Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, 1990
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either ondoing or on being.
-William James (1842-1910)
Prosperity knits a man to the world
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Prosperity knits a man to the world,he feels that 'he is finding his place in it',while really it is finding "it's" place in him.
-C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Screwtape Letters, 1946
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You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness.Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all.
Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation- Osho
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All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the mostfoolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess
- Osho
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Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this isperfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an
understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.- Osho
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When there is no security there is an endless movement and then lifeand death are the same.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts,labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true
relationship.- Eckhart Tolle
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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to"die before you die" - and find that there is no death.
- Eckhart Tolle
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"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joyarises from within"
- Eckhart Tolle
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"Nonresistance, nonjudgement and nonattachment are the threeaspects of true freedom and enlightened living"
-Eckhart Tolle
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All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, innerpeace arise from beyond the mind.
-Eckhart Tolle
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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future areconsidered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that
in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned withkeeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?
- Eckhart Tolle
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Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannotfunction and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it
perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in factinseparable.
-Eckhart Tolle
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Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries.In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego,
unbounded in time and space.- Deepak Chopra
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles developyour strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not
to surrender, that is strength.- Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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If we begin with certainties we shall end in doubts; but if we beginwith doubts, and are patient with them, we shall end with certainties.
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and greatthings in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try tohold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot
achieve.- Lao Tzu
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize thatyou do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
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The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire.All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search
ceases, it is the Supreme State.- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, thefalse values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the
false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and allgenerations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is
present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to anunderstanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
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"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself andfound only God".
Sufi Proverb
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"Do not think about yourself, but be aware of the thought, emotion,or action that makes you think of yourself."
- Krishanmurti
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To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to trulyknow yourself, take real interest in the world.
Rudolf Steiner
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What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not awareof is in control of you.
- Anthony de Mello
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What lies behind us and what lies before us Are tiny matterscompared to What lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Pain by itself is merely pain
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Pain by itself is merely pain,but the experience of pain couples with an understanding
that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering.Suffering can be endured because
there is a reason for it that is worth the effort.
What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?"- Gary Zukav
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We have to try to get rid of the notion of time. And when you have anintense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a
spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everythingis eternal.
- Paulo Coelho
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Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcomedanger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly
that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningfuleven if in a sense beyond our understanding.
- Dorothy Thompson
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, thefuture is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the
present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.- Soren Kierkegaard
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.- Zeno