“The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.”
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.”
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“To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.”
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about "culture" "art" "revolution" and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.”
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“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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