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#1

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

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#2

“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz”
― James Baraz

tags: mindfulness

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#4

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: mindfulness

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#5

“Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: love, spirituality

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#6

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
― Virginia Woolf

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#6

“The best sex takes place in the mind first”
― Jenna Jameson, How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

tags: intimacy, mindfulness, sex

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#7

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

tags: buddhism, lin-chi, linchi, línjì, mindfulness, thích-nhất-hạnh

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#8

“Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: desire, love

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#9

“Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: inspirational

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#10

“All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: self, self-love

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#11

“Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: advaita-vedanta, spirituality

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#12

“All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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#13

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

tags: philosophy, religion, spirituality

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#14

“Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: advaita-vedanta, spirituality

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#16

“All I know is a door into the dark”
― Seamus Heaney

tags: darkness, poetry

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#17

“It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#20

“Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering
as sacred remedy for all our sins,
that best and purest essence which prepares
the strong in spirit for divine delights!”
― Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book

tags: pain, suffering

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#23

“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

tags: admiration, affirmations, afterlife, attitude, awake, awakening, blessings, confirmation, corruption, courage, curiosity, dedication, destiny, divine-guidance, dreams, earth, evil-people, expression, faithfulness, fate, feelings, finding-yourself, forget, forgiveness, freedom, friends, gifts, god, godliness, guidance, happiness, hate, haters, hatred, heart, heaven, holy, holy-spirit, honesty, imagination, independent, inspiration, inspire, journey, joy, kindness, knowledge, liars, life, life-lessons, living, love, loving-you, loving-yourself, lying, lying-to-yourself, motivation, motivational-quotes, optimistic, passion, peace, peace-of-mind, peaceful, peacemaker, people, philosophy, positive-thinking, power, power-of-words, quotes, self-respect, soul-searching, spiritual, spirituality, success, thankfulness, trash, treasure, trust, trusting-god, trustworthy, truth, value, vision, wisdom, words-to-live-by, worth

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#25

“I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: advaita, advaita-vedanta, love, nonduality

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#26

“The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

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#28

“The spirit of that human you call Jesus was not of this Earth. That spirit simply filled a human body, allowed itself to learn as a child, become a man, and self-realized. He was not the only one to have done this. All spirits are “not of this Earth.” All souls come from another realm, then enter the body. Yet not all souls self-realize in a particular “lifetime.” Jesus did. He was a highly evolved being (what some of you have called a god), and he came to you for a purpose, on a mission. To save our souls. In a sense, yes. But not from everlasting damnation. There is no such thing as you have conceived it. His mission was—is—to save you from not knowing and never experiencing Who You Really Are. His intention was to demonstrate that by showing you what you can become. Indeed, what you are—if you will only accept it. Jesus sought to lead by example. That is why he said, “I am the way and the life. Follow me.” He didn’t mean “follow me” in the sense that you would all become his “followers,” but in the sense that you would all follow his example and become one with God. He said, “I and the Father are One, and ye are my brethren.” He couldn’t have put it more plainly.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

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#29

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules

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#30

“Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: advaita-vedanta, philosophy, spirituality

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#30

“But sixteen years without optimism had taken a heavy toll;”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

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#31

“I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

tags: following-the-rules, rules

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#32

“Some rules exist only to control someone.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Rage and Ruin

tags: freedom, rules

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#33

“The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own; it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: advaita-vedanta, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality

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#33

“Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

tags: rules, think

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#34

“the children of the hour of darkness were born, I’m afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

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