I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
-Jim Morrison
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.