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US STUCK IN THE AIRPORT FOR 10 hours, time warp, final frontier 540


“there is no time. There is no physical body. At least not beyond being a mental concept. Everything is energy, including our thoughts. Maybe everything exist at once. Time is rolled into a ball with no beginning and no ending. Now is merely a point of focus of individualised consciousness called me and called you.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. “

Compassion is all there is

“Does a word, any word, considered common or otherwise, have an innate power to harm? Can a word act in an evil or malicious way? No! A word can’t produce physical or psychological pain; only an individuals perception of it can. The listener chooses to be offended. The problem is between the hearer’s ears.”

Agree hundy p

The world is a magical island. The beauty and horror of it is that whatever you wish for comes true

“Storing up good times is like depositing resolve in a bank; you can draw down on it when you have to cover hardship”

Me on this 17 hour flight delay happy as a fiddle because what a day and week it’s been with the final frontier 540

Too many bangers

“ Religion is good for good people and bad for bad people “

“Brotherhood is the key to salvation”

Preach brother

I’ve only started but I’m going to rate it 5 stars

“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty “

There’s gonna be so many quotes in this book I can just feel it

Something made me go back and pick it up after I left it the first time

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings… I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. -Pearl s Buck

Be the man who makes his girl laugh every day

He says being a patsy is good reason for him to be interested in the study of compliance,

It stands to reason I must study relationships

Chapter 161

Slow claps at the right back at ya

“When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen. That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space - - space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.“

“That is why, after the initial euphoria has passed, there is so much unhappiness, so much pain in intimate relationships. They do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.”

Clapping as Iearn about the bread and salt book and mishka giving it to the count and that he will hopefully publish like he did with another of mishkas writing many decades ago!!!!

Crazy

Chapter 137

Why am I crying on hearing news of mishka? I love my best friends what can I say

Chapter 130

-“You sound as if you dreamed of living in America.”
“Everyone dreams of living in America.”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“Ridiculous? Half of the inhabitants of Europe would move there tomorrow just for the conveniences.”-

America, father America

Heartbreak is the only permanent fixture in the ephemeral nature of everything love

Gahli

Chapter 66

No “good” deed goes unpunished

Whether it’s offering a suggestion to an inexperienced waiter or sparing a general his 1000 rouble IOU

Chapter 52

Haha so true girl -
“is our friends who should overestimate our capacities. They should have an exaggerated opinion of our moral fortitude, our aesthetic sensibilities, and our intellectual scope. Why, they should practically imagine us leaping through a window in the nick of time with the works of Shakespeare in one hand and a pistol in the other!”

Love that I’m listening to this book during the winter solstice and the book mentions it too

Chapter 4

A King fortifies himself with a castle, a gentleman with a desk

So true bestie

Chapter 3

What a fucking cheeky G Rostov

FULL SOBBING because bestie and i say to each other how epic life is

“‘is it true what religion teaches, …rise from the dead, that we shall live again and see one another again, and Ilyushechka?’ ‘Certainly, we shall be resurrected, …, we shall see one another again and we shall tell one another happily, joyfully, everything that has happened,’ replied .., half laughing and half overcome with emotion.

Stop don’t say that!!!!!

“My hour of reckoning has come; I feel the hand of God upon me. A fitting end to a profligate life!”

PREACHING

“There are souls which, in their misery, bear a grudge against the whole world. But overwhelm such a soul with mercy, offer it love, and it will become so full of benign aspirations that it will curse its deed.”

I see why Zach said this book changed his life

“I appeal to all fathers: “Fathers, provoke not your children!” Before we make any demands upon our children, let us first fulfil Christ’s will ourselves. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies to our children; nor are they our children, but rather our enemies, and it is we ourselves who have made enemies of them!”

Le me crying

“It is merely that they are unable to conceal their—sometimes very coarse—passions—and it is this which causes consternation, it is this which draws attention, and no one sees the man within.”

Bro Dostoevsky does it again, talks directly to me and about me…

“such souls very often yearn for what is tender, beautiful, and just, yearn, without being aware of it themselves, for all that is in contradiction to their own natures, their recklessness, their cruelty. Seemingly passionate and cruel, they are capable of loving to distraction with an essentially spiritual, exalted love.”

Chapter 4
Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come