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#lit

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There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.


Mitch Albom


#choice

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other


Anton Chekhov


#medicine #medicine

The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!


James Finn Garner


#emeror-s-new-clothes #emperor #fairytales #humour #politically-correct

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.


Derrick Jensen


#civilization #industrialization #mitigate #responsibility #lifestyle

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.


Anne D. LeClaire


#spirituality #yoga #yoga

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile. (From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer)


Elizabeth Gilbert


#spirituality #yoga #yoga

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.


Susan Pease Banitt


#healing #mental-health #psychology #ptsd #spirituality

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)


Swami Satchidananda


#spirituality #yoga

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)


Ravi Ravindra


#non-attachment #spiritual-wisdom #spirituality #study #wisdom

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.


May Sarton


#loneliness #solitude #rich






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