“There is absolutely nothing wrong. Most of us have been brought up to believe that certain things are right and certain things are wrong. This may appear true in the relative world, but in the spiritual world all is well, and everything is unfolding as it should.”
—Robert Adams
June 2013
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“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
—Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
“Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via samsaranmusing)
“but I am not someone who likes to wound
rather I have a quiet mind” —Sappho, “Fragment 120,” in If Not, Winter; Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson (Virago, 2003)
rather I have a quiet mind” —Sappho, “Fragment 120,” in If Not, Winter; Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson (Virago, 2003)
“Let yourself be silently drawn, by the strange pull, of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
—Rumi
“Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.”
—Sri Nisargadatta (via lazyyogi)
“Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.”
—LAO TZU (via samsaranmusing)
“Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.”
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Eckhart Tolle
(via astraeia)
“People tell you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be.”
—Richard Whitman (via strategos)
“The Buddha himself engaged in austerities and came to understand that punishing the body was not a doorway to liberation from suffering. In his enlightenment he understood that the way to freedom ran midway between punishing and indulging the body. Thus the path of the Buddha has become known as the middle way.”
—Gavin Harrison, In the Lap of the Buddha (via kimjungho)
