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"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."(Rainer Maria Rilke)
A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
You can learn something from anyone, no matter who they are or what their station in life is.
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love.
These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
(Naval Ravikant)
Your true nature is that of infinitive spirit.
The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
(Ramana Maharshi)
do not assume that your suffering is a proof of your authenticity. do not fall in love with it. renunciation of pleasure can easily turn into pleasure of renunciation itself.
We don’t have to take thinking seriously. If we don’t take them seriously, they can’t harm us. Thoughts arise. Thoughts disappear. All by themselves! Thoughts come and go. If we leave them alone, they are harmless, powerless.
(Fred Davis)
Pitting what you like against what you don't like -
that is the disease of the mind.
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
(Eric Hoffer)
You want to live without ageing; and in reality you age without living.