Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
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You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.
Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.
The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.
Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.
Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty__r indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne__ thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or __urocentric_; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the __adical_; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly __ommitt
The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.
As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of the banalized Enlightenment are likewise meant to burn what they worshipped and worship what they burned.
your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.
Life doesn__ have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind our existence. We hunger for meaning the way a starving man does food__onvinced we will waste away without it. As though to experience what it is to be alive weren__ enough to justify drawing breath. Life is a multi-layered practice in exploration, self-definition, connection, and realization. The greatest challenge presented to us as human beings is to allow the infinite to be infinite; to accept that we will always be the student never the teacher, and allow the truths we__e gathered to evolve because what we seek to understand is a living thing and is in a perpetual state of change. Humanity__ progression of understanding is open-ended. Anyone who professes mastery only shows their ignorance of the infinite procession of enlightenment of which they are a part. Each of us get to add a line into the coverless tome of understanding, which has no beginning and no end.
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.
What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.
The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
Enlightenment is not about cocooning one__ self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.
We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day__ho you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.