To have a body is to suffer. Those who understand this, detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the gods. So let us celebrate the struggle.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
-Jodi Picoult
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
Your hills, O Earth, your snow-clad mountain peaks, your forests, may they show us kindliness… Impart to us vitalising forces that come, O Earth from deep within your body, your central point, your navel, purify us wholly.
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
