The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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| — | Buddha (via shaktilover) |
It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
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| — | Shauna Niequist (via dirtysoufyankee) |
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
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| — | Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi) |
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.
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| — | Michel de Montaigne (via stillcuriosity) |
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
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| — | Jiddu Krishnamurti (via yogachocolatelove) |
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
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| — | Michelle Williams (via bleeding-heartlines) |
You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images.
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| — | A Course In Miracles (via unconditionedconsciousness) |
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.
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| — | Nisargadatta Maharaj (via ashramof1) |
