Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

Αν βγείτε στον δρόμο και ρωτήσετε τους περαστικούς, όλοι θα πουν ότι εμείς δώσαμε τα φώτα μας στην ανθρωπότητα. Σαχλαμάρες! Όχι γιατί δεν είναι αλήθεια, αλλά γιατί τέτοια λόγια βγαίνουν και από το στόμα ανθρώπων που δεν έχουν μελετήσει ούτε μια στιγμή στη ζωή τους.

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I love you, but it's none of your business.

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People go through so many changes in the name of “trying to find myself.” They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them.

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Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind.

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Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems.

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Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart.

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You must realize that when you defend yourself, you are really defending your walls. There is nothing else to defend in there.

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So there are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone, or you can work on your freedom.

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You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside.

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You don’t fight the mind. In fact, you don’t even try to change it. You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama.

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Life itself is your career, and your interaction with life is your most meaningful relationship. Everything else you’re doing is just focusing on a tiny subset of life in the attempt to give life some meaning. What actually gives life meaning is the willingness to live it. It isn’t any particular event; it’s the willingness to experience life’s events.

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Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not mind. The mind doesn’t even get a chance to start up because you let go at the heart level.

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To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them.

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Life is continuously changing, and if you’re trying to control it, you’ll never be able to fully live it.

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You really don’t need more time before death; what you need is more depth of experience during the time you’re given.

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Death changes everything in a flash. That’s the reality of the situation. If all these things can be changed in an instant, then maybe they aren’t so real after all.

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You have to understand that it is your attempt to get special experiences from life that makes you miss the actual experience of life.

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The only thing you have to know is that opening allows energy in, and closing blocks it out. Now you have to decide whether or not you want this energy. How high do you want to get? How much love do you want to feel? How much enthusiasm do you want to have for the things you do? If enjoying a full life means experiencing high energy, love, and enthusiasm all the time, then don’t ever close.

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