#gk

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #inspirational #lovingkindness #meditation #peace

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market. ↗

— Evan Parker

#birmingham #buy #called #everybody #i

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #inspiration #inspirational #lovingkindness #meditation

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #art

Selingkuh: meninggalkan yang tak sempurna untuk yang lebih tak sempurna. ↗

— Christian Simamora

#relationship-advice #romance #romance-novels #sad-but-true #selingkuh

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. ↗

— Tara Brach

#lovingkindness #self-confidence #spirituality #experience

Anak-anak saya kelak akan tumbuh di lingkungan tertentu. Bukankah seharusnya saya juga ambil bagian dalam mempersiapkan lingkungan yang akan tumbuh bersamanya? ↗

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

#lingkungan #cinta

Lumpini Park at night: love at its cheapest, but the incidence of HIV is said to be over 60 per cent. In the darkness: furtive movement on benches and on the grass, muted moans and whispers, rustlings of large animals in heat, the intensity of the atomic fusion of sec and death (highly addictive, they say). ↗

— John Burdett

#bangkok #katoey #narration #death

I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it means ‘spirit,’ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong.” She laughs, rough as a cough. “The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile. ↗

— Timothy Hallinan

#edgar-award #poke-rafferty #thriller #death

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value. ↗

— Tony Meloto (Your First Job by: N. Dy)

#gk #happiness #inspirational #money #nelson-dy