To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
God first created light, all men are born out of it. The whole world came out of a single spark; who is good and who is bad? The Creator is in the creation, and the creation in the Creator, He is everywhere.
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by its dualities.
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
-Etty Hillesum
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore