We know the world only through the window of our mind. When our mind is noisy, the world is as well. And when our mind is peaceful, the world is, too. Knowing our minds is just as important as trying to change the world.
Haemin Sunim, The Things you can see only when you Slow Down
I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be
Joan Didion
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth,
When you fall in love with the unknown,
you are free.
Byron Katie
When I am not present to myself, then I am only aware of that half of me, that mode of my being which turns outward to created things. And then it is possible for me to lose myself among them. Then I no longer feel the deep secret pull of the gravitation of love which draws my inward self. My will and my intelligence lose their command of the other faculties. My senses, my imagination, my emotions, scatter to pursue their various quarries all over the face of the earth. Recollection brings them home. It brings the outward self in line with the inward spirit, and makes my whole being answer the deep pull of love that reaches down into the mystery of God.
Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
Even when we cannot see the while picture, it is good to have an underlying trust.
Let me fall if I must.
The one I will become will catch me
Baal Shem Tov, 1698 – 1760, Jewish rabbi and mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
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