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#1

“There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: deidre-o-neill, disciple, edde, teacher

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#2

“The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)”
― Sarah Turnbull, Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

tags: building, city, lime, loo, public, toilet, trail, trees, ufo

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#3

“…the universe…sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we’re on the right path.” (p.XV)”
― Michelle Maisto

tags: path, signposts, universe

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#4

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)”
― Torkom Saraydarian, The Solar Angel

tags: beauty, consciousness, creativity, manifestation, solar-angel, spirituality, state-of-consciousness

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#5

“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”
― Storm Constantine

tags: cleansing, quote, refreshing, storm-constantine, wraeththu, writing

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#6

“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)”
― Stephen Clarke, A Year in the Merde

tags: baguette, bed, cannonball, cartoon, cartwheel, ceiling, deep-sea-divers-boots, family, floor, kangaroo, kids, kitchen, madame, megaphone, morning, neighbors, parisians, routine, school, sledgehammers, stampede, toilet, tv, urine, yelling

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#7

“As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92)”
― Bob Burg and John David Mann, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

tags: possibility, reaching-people, selling

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#8

“Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.” (p.157)”
― Piero Ferrucci, The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

tags: generosity

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#9

“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)”
― Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

tags: writing

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#10

“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana

tags: beauty, caprice, first-step, freedom, grammar, hidden-reason, joy, language, law, learning, liberation, liberty, limit, literature, marvel, pedestal, poem, rules-of-grammar, spirit, wings, words

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#11

“…it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there.” (p.23)”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

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#12

“This is terrific. What a gorgeous kitchen. You’ve decorated it so beautifully. Now you’re going to have to clear all the counters. Vases. Books. Knickknacks. Get rid of all that stuff. I mean, it is just beautiful. Beautiful. I love what you’ve done with this house. Make sure you put it all away.” ~Real estate agent (p.76)”
― Dominique Browning, Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness

tags: book, counter, decorate, house, kitchen, knickknack, real-estate-agent, vase

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#13

“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)”
― Laraine Herring, Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice

tags: act-of-power, discovery, kicking-and-screaming, passion, power, surrender, tug-at-your-soul, writing

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#14

“We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)”
― Joshua David Stone, A Beginner's Guide to the Path of Ascension

tags: ascension, beginner-s-guide, thoughts, trapped

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#15

“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI”
― Manav Sachdeva Maasoom, The Sufi's Garland

tags: poetry

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#16

“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)”
― Mark Nepo, Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives

tags: birds, fish, learn, sky, teacher, water

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#17

“I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.
“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

tags: heart

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#18

“Pierre mixed the salad. The romaine and cress he doused with walnut oil chilled to an emulsion, turning it with wooden forks so that the bruises showed on the green in dark lines. He poured on the souring of wine vinegar and the juice of young grapes, seasoned with shallots, pepper and salt, a squeeze of anchovy, and a pinch of mustard. At the Faison d’Or the salad was in wedlock with the roast.” (p.24)”
― Idwal Jones, High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventures

tags: anchovy, cress, faison-d-or, mustard, pepper-and-salt, romaine, salad, shallots, walnut-oil, wine-vinegar, wooden-forks, young-grapes

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#19

“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” (p.136)”
― Mark David Gerson, The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write

tags: e-mails, filing, floors, fridges, returning-calls, toilets, windows, writers

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#20

“Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203)”
― Cynthia Sass, Cinch! Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches

tags: antioxidants, body-weight, chemicals, insects, natural-defenses, nutrients, organic-foods, pesticides, plants, satiety, weather

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#21

“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering.” (pp.69-70)”
― Michael Benanav, Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold

tags: blood-volume, bloodstream, body-tissues, body-weight, camels, death, dehydration, drinking, fat, gallon, humps, mammal, myth, volume-shock, water, watering

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#22

“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)”
― Hilary Austen, Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life

tags: accepted-mastery, conventional-wisdom, effort, extreme-originality, genius, journey, madman, madness, persistence

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#23

“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33)”
― Tim Willocks, The Religion

tags: angel, apple, asymmetry, atlantic, autumn, blind-man, blossom, bones, clock, colors, depression, eyes, god, horror, journey, left-eye, living-things, madness, mirror, nineteen-years-old, power-of-sight, prayer, questions, sacraments, smile, starlight, tree, wind

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#24

“As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he’d promised her, making the father angry?” (p.3)”
― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

tags: coke, doll, father, house, jesus, little-girl, pepsi, santa, young-child

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#25

“One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason.” (p.98)”
― Seth Godin, Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You.

tags: design, macintosh, medusa, steve-jobs, talent, upgrade

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#26

“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.

“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)”
― Jay Rayner, Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology

tags: absorbed, apron, courses, crucial-points, cutlery, deafening-moments, debris, floor, food, grace, identify, linen, lives, main-event, meal, mess, moment, plate, pockets, retrospect, sauce, splash, starters, tablecloth, taste, time, waiters, wine, wine-glass

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#27

“After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.

“ ‘All illnesses are due to Karma,’ Daskalos replied. ‘It is either the result of your own debts or the debts of others you love.’

“ ‘I can understand paying for one’s own Karma but what does it mean paying the Karma of someone you love?’ I asked.

“ ‘What do you think Christ meant,’ Daskalos said, ‘when he urged us to bear one another’s burdens?’

“ ‘Karma,’ Daskalos explained, ‘has to be paid off in one way or another. This is the universal law of balance. So when we love someone, we may assist him in paying part of his debt. But this,’ he said, ‘is possible only after that person has received his ‘lesson’ and therefore it would not be necessary to pay his debt in full. When most of the Karma has been paid off someone else can assume the remaining burden and relieve the subject from the pain. When we are willing to do that,’ Daskalos continued, ‘the Logos will assume nine-tenths of the remaining debt and we would actually assume only one-tenth. Thus the final debt that will have to be paid would be much less and the necessary pain would be considerably reduced. These are not arbitrary percentages,’ Daskalos insisted, ‘but part of the nature of things.”
― Kyriacos C. Markides, The Magus of Strovolos: The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer

tags: burden, christ, daskalos, karma, karmic-debt, law-of-balance, logos, love, pain

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