One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
— Abraham Maslow (via intxci)
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
— Buddha (via mikedoc73)
(via yellow-springs)
Every positive change—every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness—involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
— Dan Millman (via lucifelle)
(via lucifelle)
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
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Brian Cox
(via the-star-stuff)
(via thenewenlightenmentage)
If you cannot find a friend who is good, wise, and loving, walk alone, like a king who has renounced his kingdom, or an elephant roaming at will in the forest.
— Buddha (via lazyyogi)
(via yellow-springs)
Gita Excerpt
Lord Krishna said: In this world I have stated a twofold path of spiritual discipline in the past. The path of Self-knowledge for the contemplative ones, and the path of unselfish work (Seva, Karma-yoga) for all others.
One does not attain freedom from the bondage of Karma by merely abstaining from work. No one attains perfection by merely giving up work, because no one can remain actionless even for a moment. Everyone is driven to action helplessly indeed by the forces of Nature.
Anyone, who restrains the senses but mentally dwells upon the sense objects, is called a pretender.
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