“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― The Prophet
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― The Prophet
“in the pursuit of knowledge:
everyday something is added.
in the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.”
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everyday something is added.
in the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.”
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“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“king is a servant when he mimics other kings without understanding. A king is a trader when he uses rules to get all the things that he desires. A king is a master when he uses rules to impose his thoughts on those around him. A king is a seer when he understands the thought behind the rules and so appreciates the many reasons why a rule is followed and why another rule is not.”
― Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
― Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu
― The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu
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