Returning to the ancestral void
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“Before you speak ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, it is true, does it improve upon the silence?” -
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” — Rumi (via yogachocolatelove) -
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“Holiness is not about scientific objectivity. It is about a deep and clear recognition of the true nature of life.” — Deng Ming-Dao (via zeneurotic) -
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” — Henry Ford, 1922 (via humanformat) -
“As for pain, like a hand cut in battle, consider the body a robe you wear. The worried, heroic deeds of a man and a woman are noble to the draper, where the dervishes relish the light breeze of spirit.” — Rumi (via artoo-d3too) -
“Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.” — Thich Nhat Hanh (via whimsicalele)(via soundsightandthought)
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Bringer of the Dawn
Freydoon Rassouli
“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.” ~Rene Daumal
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Born Free
Freydoon Rassouli
“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”
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“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.” ~ Buddha
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“It is compassion, dedicating ourselves to others, taking on their suffering instead of cherishing ourselves, that, hand in hand with the wisdom that realises egoless-ness, destroys most effectively and most completely that attachment to a false self that has been the cause of our endless suffering.” — The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (via moving-words) -
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“Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo (via chicagohijabster)
