If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.
// Eckhart Tolle
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philosophy
MIND: Shuttered
Your days are numbered.
Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.
If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
The Emperor’s Handbook // Marcus Aurelius
MIND: Equanimity
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
// Carl Jung
MIND: Susceptible
When we are tired, we are attacked
by ideas we conquered long ago.
// Friedrich Nietzsche
MIND: Bargaining
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
The Handmaid’s Tale // Margaret Atwood
MIND: Rampant
But the human tongue is a beast that few can master.
It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed,
it will run wild and cause you grief.
The 48 Laws of Power // Robert Greene
MIND: Tools
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer,
to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Toward a Psychology of Being // Abraham Maslow
MIND: Compressed
As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious
and full of detail; it wants to polish itself; it
wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in
the world that can hold, in a mix of power and
sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas,
ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Evidence // Mary Oliver
MIND: Replica
Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
// Oscar Wilde
MIND: Otherworldly
From the moment that one pays continuous attention to anything, no matter what it is – a leaf, a nail, whatever is being regarded becomes a world in itself, mysterious, imposing, unspeakably magnified and inexhaustibly fertile in possibilities.
Once you have begun to do this, you have entered into the kingdom of the Other, recognizing its otherness, and wanting to learn from it.
The feeling that you get is that the world, and each aspect of it, is a mystery, is unfathomable, and that it glows against the background of universal darkness with a kind of strange and even magical light, both utterly meaningful and utterly meaningless, as the universe itself is.
The Kingdom of the Other: On seeing what is to be seen // James Dickey
