Sameh

“you have to ‘lose your mind’ before you can come to your senses.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“When my grandmother—may she attain the Kingdom of Heaven—was dying, my mother, as was then the custom, took me to her bedside and, as I kissed her right hand, my dear grandmother placed her dying left hand on my head and said in a whisper, yet very distinctly: “Eldest of my grandsons! Listen and always remember my strict injunction to you: In life never do as others do.” Having said this, she gazed at the bridge of my nose and, evidently noticing my perplexity and my obscure understanding of what she had said, added somewhat angrily and imperiously: “Either do nothing—just go to school—or do something nobody else does Whereupon she immediately, without hesitation and with a perceptible impulse of disdain for all around her, and with commendable self-cognizance, gave up her soul directly into the hands of His Faithfulness, the Archangel Gabriel.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

“how there are never crystallized in them any subjective being-convictions formed by their own logical deliberations—as in general is proper to three-brained beings—but instead, only those convictions are crystallized that depend exclusively upon the opinions of others.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

“Life goes on. people pass along. nothing stays the same. the lord gives and the lord takes away. thats the way he is...!”
― Terrence Malick