“Which of my beliefs are of my own creation and which were programmed into me?”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
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“I am a human being, meant to be in perpetual becoming. My goal is not to remain the same but to live in such a way that each day, year, moment, relationship, conversation , and crisis is the material I use to become a truer, more beautiful version of myself.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.”
― Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
― Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within.”
― Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
― Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
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