“Fearlessness is generated when you can appreciate uncertainty, when you have faith in the impossibility of these interconnected components remaining static and permanent. You will find yourself, in a very true sense, preparing for the worst while allowing for the best....By knowing that something is lying in wait for you just around the bend, by accepting that countless potentialities exist from this moment forward, you acquire the skill of pervasive awareness and foresight like that of a gifted general, not paranoid but prepared.”
― What Makes You Not a Buddhist
― What Makes You Not a Buddhist
“As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.”
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“She wears strength and darkness equally well,
The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”
― Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”
― Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
“If there is no blind hope, there is also no disappointment. If one knows that everything is impermanent, one does not grasp, and if one does not grasp, one will not think in terms of having or lacking, and therefore one lives fully.”
― What Makes You Not a Buddhist
― What Makes You Not a Buddhist
“Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.”
― Your Soul is a River
― Your Soul is a River
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