Psychology
The human brain is designed to respond to dangers very efficiently. But those dangers have to be intentional, they have to be immoral, and they have to be immediate. A saber tooth tiger, or a gun shot, will clear a room instantly. These are exactly the kinds of dangers that we've evolved to respond to. The problem is global warming doesn't push any of those buttons.
-Daniel Gilbert, Psychologist, Harvard University
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
-Lyall Watson
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein
The undiscerning mind is like the roots of a tree. It absorbs equally all that it touches, even the poison that would kill it.
-Master Po from Kung Fu the series Episode No. 19
I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
-Carl Jung
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god!
-William Shakespeare - Hamlet Scene II
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays.
-David Hartley
He who angers you, conquers you.
-Elizabeth Kenny
If I had to live my life over, I should devote myself to psychic research rather than psychoanalysis.
-Sigmund Freud
Draw from your past, but do not let your past draw from you.
-Master Bra`tac - Stargate Atlantis TV Series: "Reunion" (#4.3)
The true measure of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
-Albert Einstein
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
-Goethe
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
-Carl Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man, 1934
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
-Leo Tolstoy
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
-Voltaire
Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
-Bernard Baruch
May memory restore again and again, the smallest color of the smallest day. Time is the school in which we learn. Time is the fire in which we burn.
-Delmore Schwartz, The Repetitive Heart
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
-Albert Einstein
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
-Bell Hooks
You are erratic, conflicted, disorganized. Every decision is debated, every action questioned. Every individual entitled to their small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing.
-Seven of Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Season 3 Episode 1
The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.
-Bruce Lee
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
-Marilyn Monroe
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
-George Bernard Shaw
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
-Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
-Dr. Seuss
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King
You'll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate your life.
-Brigitte Nicole, Lessons Learned in Life
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world of conformists.
-Nikola Tesla
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
-Oscar Wilde
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
-Carl Jung
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The only people who are mad at you for speaking the truth are those people who are living a lie. Keep speaking the truth.
-Tupac Shakur
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but, you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (Psychologist) and John Kessler (Artist)
Shortly before her death in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, her collaborator, completed the manuscript for this, her final book.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
-John Locke
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
-Bob Marley
It is from ignorance, and ignorance alone, that humans must free themselves.
-An ancient Rosicrucian adage
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
-Jim Morrison
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
-Mark Twain
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
-Robin Williams
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
-Socrates
A pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled, and a trouble shared is a trouble halved.
-Dr. Gareth Owens
Thinking is considering alternative points of view seriously.
-Anonymous
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
‒George Carlin
When do you ever meet people that are happy? Genuinely happy? Only children, the mentally ill, and daytime television presenters.
-Quoted from Revolution by Russell Brand
A mind is a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
-Frank Zappa
Don't forget who you are, and where you come from.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
-Sonia Ricotti
Think of what makes you smile, makes you happy...and do more of that stuff.
-Steve Maraboli
I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
-Edgar Allan Poe
The more time you spend on an old idea, the more energy you invest in it, the more solid it becomes, and the more it will exclude new ideas.
-Brian Eno
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
-Bruce Lee
When this passion called aspiration becomes lust, then aspiration degenerates, becomes vulgar ambition, by which sin the angels fell.
-The Bellero Shield, The Outer Limits
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
-Dalai Lama
Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
– Albert Einstein
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…
-Aldous Huxley, Island
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.
-Dalai Lama
In America, we hurry--which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us, and toss and worry over them when we ought to be restoring our racked bodies and brains with sleep. We burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe. When an acre of ground has produced long and well, we let it lie fallow and rest for a season; we take no man clear across the continent in the same coach he started in--the coach is stabled somewhere on the plains and its heated machinery allowed to cool for a few days; when a razor has seen long service and refuses to hold an edge, the barber lays it away for a few weeks, and the edge comes back of its own accord. We bestow thoughtful care upon inanimate objects, but none upon ourselves. What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!\
- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
-Arthur Ashe
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
-Cesar Chavez
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
-Teaching of the Buddha
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
-Voltaire
I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
-Amy Poehler
You must do the thing you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
-Les Brown
I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
-Bill Murray
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
-Frank Zappa
If you put limits on what you can do, physical, or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
-Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Punches and kicks are tools to kill the ego.
-Bruce Lee
The control of our being is not unlike the combination of a safe. One turn of the knob rarely unlocks the safe; each advance and retreat is a step toward one's final achievement.
-Bruce Lee
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
-Mark Twain
When you're watching television, you're watching the news, and you're being pumped full of fear. There's floods. There's AIDS. There's murder. Cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath they're not going to talk to you. If you have pimples, the girl's not going to fuck you. It's just this campaign of fear and consumption, and that's what I think it's all based on. The whole idea of 'keep everyone afraid and they'll consume.'
-Marilyn Manson
Reading good books is like having a conversation with the most distinguished [people] of past ages, namely their authors—indeed, a carefully prepared conversation in which they reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.... Conversing with people of past centuries is rather like travelling…. But if you spend too much time travelling you will end up being a stranger in your own country.
-Rene Decartes
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, the ‘universe,’ — a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
-Socrates
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
-Khalil Gibran
The school system is designed to teach obedience and conformity and prevent the child's natural capacities from developing.
-Noam Chomsky
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
-Albert Einstein
Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
-Malcolm X
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
-Aristotle
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
-Rumi
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
-Paulo Coelho
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-Andre Gide
I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
-Vincent van Gogh to Anthon Rappard, August 1885
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
-Marcus Aurelius
Life is not so important when forced to choose between life and integrity.
-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
If one is overly strict, his subordinates will become untrustworthy. If he over-trusts, his subordinates will become unruly.
-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
The gift of mental power comes from God, divine being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.
-Nikola Tesla
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
-Mark Twain
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
-C.G. Jung
World peace can only be based on inner peace. If we ask what destroys our inner peace, it’s not weapons and external threats, but our own inner flaws like anger. This is one of the reasons why love and compassion are important, because they strengthen us. This is a source of hope.
-Dalai Lama
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
As long as we live in this world we are bound to encounter problems. If, at such times, we lose hope and become discouraged, we diminish our ability to face up to what challenges us. If, on the other hand, we remember that it is not just ourselves but everyone who has to undergo hardship, this more realistic perspective will increase our determination and capacity to overcome what troubles us.
-Dalai Lama
This was the most liberating thing. As I loved and respected myself more, I stopped worrying about how much others liked or approved of me. I stopped doing things to be liked. This created space for me to be more authentic, less defensive, and more my genuine self. When you have your own approval and acceptance, you start caring less about other people’s opinion of you and living a life that's aligned with your own values.
-Aska Kolton
Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.
-Khalil Gibran
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
-Heraclitus
And to keep control over your four virtues: courage, insight, sympathy, solitude. Because solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people (“society”) inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people – “base." -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil §284
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
-Albert Einstein, 1922 scribble on receipt
Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.
-Jaggi Vasudev
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
-Plato
We seek through art
to recover our center,
To remember our soul's task,
To stop sleepwalking in confusion,
To stop managing our depression,
to harness the passion of inextinguishable love,
To find the One Godself,
Hidden throughout creation.
-Alex Grey, Art: Holy Spirit Dove
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.
-Wayne Dyer
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
-Robert Anton Wilson
I need solitude.
I need space.
I need air.
I need the empty
fields round me;
and my legs
pounding along roads;
and sleep;
and animal existence.
-Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
-Edgar Allan Poe
The ‘kingdom of heaven’ is not something lying ‘above the earth’ or coming ‘after death’. It does not have a yesterday or a day after tomorrow, and it will not arrive in a ‘thousand years’. It is an experience of the heart. It is everywhere and it is nowhere.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.
-Robert Anton Wilson
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
-Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935
I don’t know if I’ve learned anything yet! I did learn how to have a happy home, but I consider myself fortunate in that regard because I could’ve rolled right by it. Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth — we don’t have shamans or soothsayers, and depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side, too, and we become attracted to fluff. That’s reflected in the fact that this culture sets up an addiction to romance based on insecurity — the uncertainty of whether or not you’re truly united with the object of your obsession is the rush people get hooked on. I’ve seen this pattern so much in myself and my friends and some people never get off that line.
But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing. I recently read an article in Esquire magazine called ‘The End of Sex,’ that said something that struck me as very true. It said: “If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.” What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over.
You can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. With a long relationship, things die then are rekindled, and that shared process of rebirth deepens the love. It’s hard work, though, and a lot of people run at the first sign of trouble. You’re with this person, and suddenly you look like an asshole to them or they look like an asshole to you — it’s unpleasant, but if you can get through it you get closer and you learn a way of loving that’s different from the neurotic love enshrined in movies. It’s warmer and has more padding to it.”
-Joni Mitchell
This is not a promise. So do not cultivate quietness of the mind. But when the mind is not seeking any solution, has no beliefs, has no hope, is completely silent, then only can it meet sorrow. And in that state, sorrow ceases to be.
-Krishnamurti
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream.
-Carl G. Jung
There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
-Bob Ross
The Sage battles his own ego. The fool battles everyone else’s.”
-Sufi Proverb
All of man’s difficulties are caused by his inability to sit, quietly, in a room by himself.
-Blaise Pascal
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
-Epictetus (Greek Stoic philosopher) 50-135 AD
Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.
-Egyptian Proverb
If you stand for nothin, you'll fall for anything.
-Letterkenny S8 Ep2, National Senior Hockey Championship
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.
-Frantz Fanon
The persona is nothing real: it is a compromise between the individual and society as to what a man should appear to be.
-Carl G. Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-Carl G. Jung
I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
-Voltaire
Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
- Jack Welch
How easy it is for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons. The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how it is. You have to be larger than thought to realize that however you interpret “your life” or someone else's life or behavior, however you judge any situation, it is no more than a viewpoint, one of many possible perspectives. It is no more than a bundle of thoughts. But reality is one unified whole, in which all things are interwoven, where nothing exists in and by itself. Thinking fragments reality — it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.
-Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
I recently discovered that our mind works like a pendulum, and every subject is really two subjects. When thinking on a subject it is completely normal for our minds to swing from the positive (after we are done analyzing the positive) to the negative. This is where fear comes in as it forces us to constantly look at the negative side of things, keeping our minds on the negative side of the thought.
True self mastery comes when one is able to identify when the mind begins to wander towards the negative and gently guide it back to the positive.
-Divine Ukadike
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-Carl Jung
Therefore, the correct approach to the problem is not how to get rid of fear but to realize that there will be fear as long as we are protecting ourselves with property, relationship, name, ideas, beliefs, etc. If we let go any of these, we are nothing; therefore, we are the property, the idea, etc. Thus, frightened of being nothing, we hold on to property, etc, and thereby create a lot of misery in the world. If we tackle our desire for self-protection, then, there will be a transformation, and property etc. will have altogether a different significance.
-Krishnamurti
Throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly.
-Aldous Huxley
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.
-Vincent Van Gogh
We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
-Emile Zola
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
-Simone de Beauvoir
Be tolerant of others and strict with yourself.
-Marcus Aurelius
At your highest moment be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.
-Denzel Washington
Myth is metaphor. The imagery of mythology is symbolic of spiritual powers within us: when these are interpreted as referring to historical or natural events which science in turn shows could not have occurred, then you throw the whole thing out. You see, myths do not come from a concept system; they come from a life system; they come out of a deeper center. We must not confuse mythology with ideology. Myths come from where the heart is, and where the experience is, even as the mind may wonder why people believe these things. The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
When you think, for instance, ‘God is thy father,’ do you think he is? No, that's a metaphor, and the metaphor points to two ends: one is psychological--that's why the dream is metaphoric; the other is metaphysical. Now, dream is metaphoric of the structures in the psyche, and your dream will correspond to the level of psychological realization that you are operating on. The metaphysical, on the other hand, points past all conceptualizations, all things, to the ultimate depth. And when the two come together, when psyche and metaphysics meet, then you have a real myth. And when that happens the sociological and the cosmological aspects of your life have to be re-visioned in terms of these realizations.
-Joseph Campbell,From An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms (pg. 21)
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-Francis Bacon
What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
We are all alone,
born alone, die alone,
and—in spite of
True Romance magazines —
we shall all someday
look back on our lives
and see that, in spite
of our company, we were
alone the whole way.
I do not say lonely —
at least, not all the
time—but essentially,
and finally, alone. This
is what makes your
self-respect so important,
and I don’t see how you can
respect yourself if you must
look in the hearts and minds
of others for your happiness.
-Hunter S. Thompson
Kahless tells us rain makes a hole in stone not by violence, but by falling often. The tenacity of persistence should never be undervalued. If your goal is not met, do not give up. For if mighty stone can be cracked eventually, so can you find victory.
-@CoachGowron on Twitter
if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future
your lungs are the perfect place for you
there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either
there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath
and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."
this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves
and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs
I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs
before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said
"what took you so long?"
-John Roedel
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
-Albert Einstein