#ali

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is. ↗

— David Petersen

#life

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try to say the truth, and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation. ↗

— Coleman Barks

#rumi #spirituality #life

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #life

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#hospitalization #hospitals #life #living #the-world

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding. ↗

— Don Richard Riso

#inspiration #personality-types #self-awareness #self-understanding #wisdom

إذا تذكرت دائماً أن ما تمارسه سيصبح سمة مميزة لشخصيتك فإنك لا شك سوف تسلك أنواعاً من السلوك غير التي تسلكها الآن. ↗

— ريتشارد كارلسون

#personality #self-development #life

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. ↗

— Alice McCall

#health #journey #life #motivational #self-help

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#bliss #intuition #joy #life #realising

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#reality #life

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#time #life