You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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| — | Alan Watts |
As I walk by the river in the sliver of crescent moonlight
As I walk by the river in the sliver of crescent moonlight
Shining through the tops of the trees, just enough light
To make my way without falling, yet not enough to stop
Paying attention to each footsep, I think about my future
Years ahead in time I will be different yet the same soul
I am barely able to know myself as anything other than a child
Yet there are hints of my future self shining along with the moonlight
I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence, which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.
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| — | Dalai Lama |
At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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| — | Pablo Neruda (via 0rgasms) |
I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my own soul. I realized that that in me which believed and that in me that wondered, that which was found at last, was no other than my soul. I thanked the darkness that brought me to the light, and I valued this veil that prepared for me the vision in which I saw myself reflected, the vision produced in the mirror of my soul. Since then, I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all. And what bewilderment it was when I realized that I alone was, if there were anyone, that I am whatever and whoever exists, and that I shall be whoever there will be in the future.
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| — | Hazrat Inayat Khan (via dewdropsoflove) |
Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you.
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| — | Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That |
I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content.
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| — | Walt Whitman (via lucifelle) |
If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you’re saying, because it’s too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If you’ve resisted the temptation to tell the teacher, “You’re an asshole,” which maybe he or she is, and if you don’t say, “That’s idiotic,” when you get a stupid assignment, you will gradually pass through the required filters. You will end up at a good college and eventually with a good job.
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| — | Noam Chomsky, interviewed by Charles M. Young for Rolling Stone [May 28, 1992] (via lotus-eyes) |
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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| — | Albert Camus (via mirroir) |
I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.
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| — | Rumi (via pax-caelestis) |
