self.
If there is one technique that has stayed with me in my quest for silence, it is how to send worries out on the breath, and how to let my thoughts flow by on a river. This is an image, and I say I don’t use these. Well, I use very few, and I try not to guide people through an entire mediation with words.
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
There's something constant at your core, beneath all the layers of experience and the stories you’ve lived—your true self. It’s like a secret treasure box where your deepest values and beliefs reside.
Diana G.Pinto • Do Your Personal Stories Influence Who You Are?
For me, a creative life is about envisioning futures that don’t yet exist and finding small ways to bring them into being—through the ideas I shape at work, the conversations I spark with friends, or the rituals I build into my day. It means choosing curiosity over fear, whether that’s trying something new, asking the harder question, or noticing
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Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
‘Whenever I meet people I always approach them from the standpoint of the most basic things we have in common. We each have a physical structure, a mind, emotions. We are all born in the same way, and we all die. All of us want happiness and do not want to suffer.
Dalai Lama • The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”
Sarah J. Maas • Crown of Midnight
The world looks very different when you learn to see and experience it from your heart. • All things, including life itself, are impermanent, incomplete and imperfect. Therefore, perfection is impossible, and imperfection is the natural state of everything, including ourselves. • There is great beauty, value and comfort to be found in simplicity.
Beth Kempton • Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
She meant that through tuning in to our bodies, to our organs of regeneration, we connect to the life force, and that by tapping into that energy, we can know the nature of reality, far beyond what we can experience through our limited ego-mind.