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“But what is this state? It is like a morning of spring, varied in its life and beauty, yet one and entire.
All the conflicts and contradictions of life are reconciled; knowledge, love and action harmonized; pleasure and pain become one in beauty, enjoyment and renunciation equal in goodness; the breach between the finite and the infinite fills with love and overflows; every moment carries its message of the eternal; the formless appears to us in the form of the flower, of the fruit; the boundless takes us up in his arms as a father and walks by our side as a friend.
While yet we have not attained the internal harmony, and the wholeness of our being, our life remains a life of habits. The world still appears to us as a machine, to be mastered where it is useful, to be guarded against where it is dangerous, and never to be known in its full fellowship with us, alike in its physical nature and in its spiritual life and beauty.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana

“The man, whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind; for its contact is more than a physical contact - it is a living presence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana

“Korku katilidir aklın. Korku, mutlak yıkım getiren küçük ölümdür. Korkumla yüzleşeceğim. Onun etrafımdan ve içimden geçip gitmesine izin vereceğim. Ve geçip gittiğinde, onun izlediği yolu görmek için iç gözümü kullanacağım. Korkunun geçtiği yerde hiçbir şey olmayacak. Yalnızca ben kalacağım.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes