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  • #1
    Chögyam Trungpa
    “Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
    Chögyam Trungpa

  • #2
    Anthony de Mello
    “Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”
    Anthony de Mello

  • #3
    Eric Micha'el Leventhal
    “The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”
    Eric Micha'el Leventhal

  • #4
    Solange nicole
    “Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.”
    Solange nicole

  • #5
    Jack Kornfield
    “When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.”
    Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

  • #6
    Hermann Hesse
    “An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #7
    Francis Crick
    “It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.”
    Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

  • #8
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #11
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #12
    Alan W. Watts
    “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”
    Alan Watts

  • #13
    Alan W. Watts
    “It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
    Alan Wilson Watts

  • #14
    Alan W. Watts
    “We have made a problem for ourselves by confusing the intelligible with the fixed. We think that making sense out of life is impossible unless the flow of events can somehow be fitted into a framework of rigid forms. To be meaningful, life must be understandable in terms of fixed ideas and laws, and these in turn must correspond to unchanging and eternal realities behind the shifting scene. But if this what "making sense out of life" means, we have set ourselves the impossible task of making fixity out of flux.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

  • #15
    Alan W. Watts
    “Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #18
    Gustave Flaubert
    “I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #19
    Gustave Flaubert
    “It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt

  • #20
    Gustave Flaubert
    “The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #21
    Gustave Flaubert
    “The public wants work which flatters its illusions.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #22
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”
    Gustave Flaubert



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