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  • #1
    Franz Kafka
    “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #3
    “...Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
    I would like to see you living
    In better conditions.
    For your mother and my mother
    Were friends....”
    Hafiz

  • #4
    Michael Talbot
    “We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.”
    Michael Talbot, Mysticism and the New Physics

  • #5
    “Leave the lights on: you can sleep when you're dead...you can't read when you're dead.”
    Michael Link

  • #6
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments. Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove.
    O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
    It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within his bending sickle's compass come;
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
    William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets

  • #8
    Henry Beston
    “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
    Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #10
    Karen Thompson Walker
    “Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”
    Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

  • #11
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #12
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #13
    Hugh Downs
    “To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking.”
    Hugh Downs

  • #14
    Christina Carson
    “It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts.”
    Christina Carson, Suffer the Little Children

  • #15
    Christina Carson
    “I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we’re safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way.”
    Christina Carson, Dying to Know

  • #16
    Christina Carson
    “Fo’ it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very hard fo’ very long, we don’t own suffering. Abuse, slavery, injustice, an tribulation be part of human living. An if there be a question that be worth axing, rather than it be bout white or black, we might be wanting to ax how come it’s always us humans who be suffering an be mean to one another. We might want a be axing that instead. From: "Accidents of Birth Trilogy”
    Christina Carson

  • #17
    Adyashanti
    “If you prefer smoke over fire
    then get up now and leave.
    For I do not intend to perfume
    your mind's clothing
    with more sooty knowledge.

    No, I have something else in mind.
    Today I hold a flame in my left hand
    and a sword in my right.
    There will be no damage control today.

    For God is in a mood
    to plunder your riches and
    fling you nakedly
    into such breathtaking poverty
    that all that will be left of you
    will be a tendency to shine.

    So don't just sit around this flame
    choking on your mind.
    For this is no campfire song
    to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.

    Jump now into the space
    between thoughts
    and exit this dream
    before I burn the damn place down.”
    Adyashanti

  • #18
    Adyashanti
    “Time to cash in your chips
    put your ideas and beliefs on the table.
    See who has the bigger hand
    you or the Mystery that pervades you.

    Time to scrape the mind's shit
    off your shoes
    undo the laces
    that hold your prison together
    and dangle your toes into emptiness.

    Once you've put everything
    on the table
    once all of your currency is gone
    and your pockets are full of air
    all you've got left to gamble with
    is yourself.

    Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top
    of the highest stakes table.
    Place yourself as the bet.
    Look God in the eyes
    and finally
    for once in your life
    lose.”
    Adyashanti

  • #19
    Adyashanti
    “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
    has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
    crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
    through the facade of pretence. It's the
    complete eradication of everything we
    imagined to be true.”
    Adyashanti

  • #20
    Adyashanti
    “Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment.”
    Adyashanti

  • #21
    Adyashanti
    “The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.”
    Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #23
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

    [Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #24
    Christina Carson
    “I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung.
    Rabindranath Tagore”
    Christina Carson, Suffer the Little Children

  • #25
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #26
    Cormac McCarthy
    “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #27
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #28
    Adyashanti
    “In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”
    Adyashanti

  • #29
    Margaret Mead
    “I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”
    Margaret Mead

  • #30
    Margaret Mead
    “It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
    Margaret Mead



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