Joan

“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Like music, intention can influence our mood, thoughts, and feelings—setting an intention in the morning, we set the tone for the day.”
― Thupten Jinpa

“Maybe I tell the story to get rid of it; or to open up the silence”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“They were rupturing. They were part of the broken things. We all are...All I am left with is the shards of the broken things to put back together again.”
― Colum McCannn