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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

-Eckhart Tolle

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“True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life

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“A man’s maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

Eckhart Tolle

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Life will break you.

Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.

You have to love. You have to feel.

It is the reason you are here on earth.

You are here to risk your heart.

You are here to be swallowed up.

And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

~ Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

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"When you practice meditation, leave all of your windows and doors open. Anything can come in and out. Just don't serve them tea." - Suzuki Roshi

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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

— Albert Camus, “The Minotaur”, Lyrical and Critical Essays

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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

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“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.”

— Bertrand Russell, What I Believe

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“Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you.”

— Epictetus, The Enchiridion

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Stop Being so Religious

What

Do sad people have in

Common?

It seems

They have all built a shrine

To the past

And often go there

And do a strange wail and

Worship.

What is the beginning of

Happiness?

It is to stop being

So religious

Like

That.

~ Hafiz, from "The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master"

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“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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Fear diminishes me, makes me no bigger than that part of me which fears. Fearful, I am too small to contain thought, too small to hold real compassion. Protecting myself, I will hurt others.“ — Sallie Tisdale, “Warrior Mind

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“The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardour and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”

— Emma Goldman, Living My Life