heal yourself, but don’t rush help people, but have boundaries love others, but don’t let them harm you love yourself, but don’t become egotistical stay informed, but don’t overwhelm yourself embrace change, but keep pursuing your goals
“Rumi, the Persian mystic: “I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.”
― Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
― Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
“Instead of always preoccupying ourselves with trying to get what we think we want or need, we’ll start to quiet, we’ll start to listen. We’ll wait for that inner prompting. We’ll try to hear, rather than decide, what it is we should do next.”
― Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
― Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
“What often happens when we face this stripping away of our models is that we will give up this and that, and instead grab onto that and this. It’s too uncomfortable not to have anything to cling to, and so we substitute a new set of attachments for the old ones.”
― Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
― Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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