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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.”
― Franz Schubert

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
― Julius Charles Hare

“You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.”
― Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
― Simone Weil

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
― Publilius Syrus

“Immortal existence..

Sometimes Living is not such an easy task..
Being here or there..
The spirit is the same.. Only changes the place where shows..
Here, the make-up is of meat.. There is infinite LIGHT..
In the flesh, or out of it , what does order is what thinks and what creates..
Each thought, a vibration..
Each action, a reaction..
That doesn't change with the death of the body.. Because actually nobody dies..
We are immortal divine existences.. Believing or not..
So many lives.. So many experiences..
So many faces.. So many dreams..
To each life new opportunities.. New learnings..
The soul Request.. Thirsty to experiment, feels, develop, evolve, grow and so it goes..
The spirit Obeys.. Enters and exit the perishable bodies..
Gets right and misses.. rehearses, Conquers and proceeds..
The spirit is a gift of the architect of the universe for the benefit of all..
It's light.. it's love.. it's eternal..
In the Astral or in the Earth.. There is to educate the thought and to clean the energies around yourself..
Gives some work to do that spiritual maintenance, but it is worthwhile.
It is Light that cleans the Light!
So never forget you are imperishable consciousness..
May a light circle involves and illuminate each soul..
Much light and love in each heart that pulses in the heart of the whole..
Namaste,
Dave”
― Dave Zebian

“Let your children go if you want to keep them.”
― Malcolm Forbes

“A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible”
― Bertrand Russell

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”
― aesop

“The true leader is always led.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
― Lily Tomlin

“suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.”
― Wilfrid Sheed

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction”
― Pablo Picasso

“To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination”
― Cynthia Ozick

“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”
― C.W. Leadbeater

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

“The greatest of faults...is to be conscious of none.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

“Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.”
― Torkom Saraydarian, Spiritual Regeneration

“he had nothing to say and he said it”
― Ambrose Bierce

“This sentence is not true”
― Douglas Adams

“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the three together.

The ordinary life is that of the average human consciousness separated from its own true self and from the Divine and led by the common habits of the mind, life and body which are the laws of the Ignorance.

The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine, but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bonds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond. The religious life may be the first approach to the spiritual, but very often it is only a turning about in a round of rites, ceremonies and practices or set ideas and forms without any issue.

The spiritual life, on the contrary, proceeds directly by a change of consciousness, a change from the ordinary consciousness, ignorant and separated from its true self and from God, to a greater consciousness in which one finds one's true being and comes first into direct and living contact and then into union with the Divine. For the spiritual seeker this change of consciousness is the one thing he seeks and nothing else matters.”
― Śrī Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, Vol 1

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

“If Lincoln were alive today, he'd roll over in his grave.”
― Gerald Ford

“When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”
― W.C. Fields

“To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety