A quote by Franz Kafka
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A quote by Franz Kafka
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Eric Maisel • A Writer's Space
Melissa Wiley added
“You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Deepak Chopra • The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you w... See more
A quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
Chubmeister 5000 added
still one of my favorite lines of all time:
and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
- charles bukowski
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... See moreYou are becoming the one who can sit in her cave and spin her stories; who can take only what is given; who is a friend to any stranger who comes near; who is willing to save her energy from fighting in order to tap into the much, much deeper and more fascinating spirit of allowing; who watches the sky with fading eyes in unattached curiosity about
Molly Simpson added
” O solitude! O my home, solitude! How happily and tenderly your voice speaks to me! We do not question each other, we do not complain to each other, we often walk together through open doors. For where you are, things are open and bright; and the hours too walk on lighter feet here. For in darkness, time weighs more heavily on us than in the light
... See moreFriedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live ev... See more
Maria Popova • Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
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