Quotes - Saud Omar (saud_omar) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Showing 1-30 of 38

#1

“Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness. ”
― Victor Nell, Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure

tags: books, victor-nell

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#2

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: creativity, enlightenment, learning, reading, writing

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#3

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”
― Leo Rosten

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#4

“في الحق إننا نتحدث إلى أنفسنا فقط، غير أننا نرفع صوتنا أحياناَ حتى يسمعنا الآخرون”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#5

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

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#6

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

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#7

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
― ram dass

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#8

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
― ram dass

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#9

“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
― ram dass

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#10

“We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”
― Ram Dass, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

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#11

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”
― ram dass

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#12

“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”
― ram dass

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#13

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ”
― Shunryu Suzuki

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#14

“enjoy your problems”
― shunryu suzuki

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#15

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

tags: buddhism, philosophy, suffering, wisdom, zen, zen-buddhism

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#16

“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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#17

“God is in the rain.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#18

“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen

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#19

“The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.”
― David Allen

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#20

“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

tags: productivity

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#21

“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”
― Paul Valery, The Art of Poetry

tags: life, poetry

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#22

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery

tags: poem, writing

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#23

“Love is being stupid together.”
― Paul Valery

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#24

“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
― Paul Valéry

tags: observation

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#25

“Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.”
― Paul Valéry

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#26

“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
― Paul Valéry

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#27

“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
― Paul Valéry

tags: reading, writing

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#28

“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”
― Paul Valéry

tags: adam-and-eve, aloneness, god, man, solitude

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#29

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
― Paul Valéry

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#30

“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
― Paul Valéry, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci

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