42 ratings (4.17 avg)
0 reviews

Alana

Add friend

Alana’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (110)

currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (42)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Alana is Currently Reading

Alana is currently reading

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

bookshelves: currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Nov 23, 2012 10:45PM

“In my isolation, I dreamt of power. My daydreams and fantasies were all about how I could win, how I could be number one, how I could have my cake and eat it too. When those dreams were fulfilled, I felt nothing. The love-sized hole within me grew larger and larger as I died by my own hand, by my own mind. During my transformation, I found what I needed to fill the hole. I found peace, joy, and connection. To power, I waved goodbye. I thought that being a loving, spiritual being meant sacrificing that triumph-hungry drive within. For much too long, I ignored these urges, believing them to be the opposite of love while I cycled in and out of love awareness. The day that my love mindset became a permanent state of mind was the day I realized that love is not the opposite of power. Love is power. Love is the strongest power there is.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset

tags: isolation, love, mind, mindset, power, power-of-love, powerful, the-love-mindset

6 likes

“Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.”
― Anaïs Nin

681 likes

“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

tags: love, pain, reality

886 likes