Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
— Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now
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Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
— Osho (via aspiritualwarrior)
Something in me wants more. I can’t rest.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via dieworten)
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All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well…desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via aspiritualwarrior)
When both myself and others are
Similar in that we do not wish to suffer,
What is so special about me?
Why do I protect myself and not others?
Similar in that we do not wish to suffer,
What is so special about me?
Why do I protect myself and not others?
— Shantideva (via thebuddhistmind)
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As bruised as my heart felt, I was realising that the things we haven’t learnt about ourselves are the very things other people come into our lives to teach.
— Courtney Peppernell, Chasing Paper Cranes (via itsonlyyforever)
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