#pa

The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one of intense pleasure and happiness, brought about by purely mental means, which thereby automatically eclipses any pleasure arising in dependence on material objects. Thus absorption functions as a powerful antidote to sensual desires by divesting them of their former attraction. ↗

— Anālayo

#meditation #samadhi #vipassana #experience

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. ↗

— John Masefield

#separation #friendship

After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there. ↗

— Ryū Murakami

#japan #life #loneliness #struggle #experience

Once fallen in true love, a person can't really fall out of it, no matter what. How much ever you try to hate your better half, you'll end up falling more instead. Some part of him will always reside in your heart. ↗

— Mehek Bassi

#breakups #experience #hurt #life #love

Love happens only once, what happens after that is just compromise; with your heart and with your life... ↗

— Mehek Bassi

#breakups #experience #hurt #life #love

Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion! ↗

— Mehek Bassi

#breakups #childhood #confusion #dilemma #experience

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#first-impressions #passion #change

Travelling expands the mind rarely. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#expands #mind #rarely #travelling

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans

yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares... ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artwork #bent-clock #funny #humorous #painting