#lit

Your darkness is not the enemy. It is the rich soil you must dig into and sometimes be planted in before something new can break through the surface; and those parts of you that seem wounded or lacking don’t need to be healed or improved, per say, but rather loved and accepted. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #love

There’s a reason why one master teacher said, “Love your enemies.” He wasn’t preaching some touchy-feely mumbo jumbo. He was talking about a cosmic law. He knew there was only One of us here. That means that anything you withhold from another you’re withholding from yourself. But it also means that anything you give to another, you’re giving to yourself. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #love

The life of the arts... is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#quality-of-life #test #the-arts #art

He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind. ↗

— John Fowles

#personality #art

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility. ↗

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

#humility #life #life-purpose #meaning #worth

Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #love #spirituality #truth #wisdom

The greatest gift we can give to another person is our love. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #love #meditation #spirituality #love

CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests. GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down] ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#orders #requests #solitude #love

This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate; to see your loves pass before you like the days of summer while your heart still beats. To keep your vigil in the shadows and rise again with every sun. ↗

— Mark Henwick

#immortality #love

The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails. ↗

— Christopher Marshall

#politics #love