‘Quotes’
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Blaise Pascal
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening.”
– Terence McKenna
“Suffering is a natural alarm, warning us that we’re attaching to a thought; when we don’t listen, we come to accept this suffering as an inevitable part of life. It’s not.”
~ Stephen Mitchell with Byron Katie
“Forgiveness is a funny thing.
It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
– William Arthur Ward
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person–without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
– Osho
“Live without pretending,
Love without depending,
Listen without defending,
Speak without offending.”
― Drake
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
~Hermann Hesse, Demian
“Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That’s secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.”
Eckhart Tolle