Irrelephant

“Above all Siddartha learned from the river how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgments, without opinions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Look deeply at your anger, as you would look at your own child. Don’t reject it or hate it. The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh 一行禅师

“Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Course. Doing better next time. That’s what life is.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged