Charles Harris
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“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, bu
... See moreBe here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
David M. Bader
“When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state. But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher states down into fear, guilt, grief, and shame. These negative emotions and energies rule our lives and cause our su
... See moreThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave, that was so dreaded, has become the centre." – Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
Ram Dass
The biggest embrace you’ll ever make is the full, absolute, and complete embrace of your humanity, exactly as it is.
Adyashanti
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
The effort to try and feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. -Oliver Burkeman