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“Art is the proper task of life.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”
Harry S. Truman
“The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. “Seeking” implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment”
Eckhart Tolle
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable”
Theodore N. Vail
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.”
Albert Einstein
“Awareness is the greatest agent for change”
Eckhart Tolle
“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place”
Eckhart Tolle
“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment...you can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer”
Eckhart Tolle
“As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you’re no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.”
Eckhart Tolle
“All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
“”Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.””
Eckhart Tolle
“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”
Henry David Thoreau
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Aristotle
“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein
“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
Mason Cooley
“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.”
Charlie Chaplin
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Epictetus