Rawda

“you may encounter intense inner resistance to disidentifying from your pain. This will be the case particularly if you have lived closely identified with your emotional pain-body for most of your life and the whole or a large part of your sense of self is invested in it. What this means is that you have made an unhappy self out of your pain-body and believe that this mind-made fiction is who you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“If you were an eighteen-year-old youth in a small village 5,000 years ago you’d probably think you were good-looking because there were only fifty other men in your village and most of them were either old, scarred and wrinkled, or still little kids. But if you are a teenager today you are a lot more likely to feel inadequate. Even if the other guys at school are an ugly lot, you don’t measure yourself against them but against the movie stars, athletes and supermodels you see all day on television, Facebook and giant billboards.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Balance is flexibility in the face of change; perfect balance is perfect flexibility in the face of constant change.”
― Deepak Chopra, Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide