#ruth

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. ↗

#authenticity #leadership #life-design #mentor #reflection

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. ↗

There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love. ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #moment #slow-process #truth #waking-up

Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#dreams

Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night; with new interests and new expectations I began to dream again of distant travels; and I remembered many extraordinary things that I had heard about old monasteries. Ideas and feelings which had long since ceased to interest me suddenly began to assume significance and interest. A deep meaning and many subtle allegories appeared in what only yesterday had seemed to be naive popular fantasy or crude superstition. And the greatest mystery and the greatest miracle was that the thought became possible that death may not exist, that those who have gone may not have vanished altogether, but exist somewhere and somehow, and that perhaps I may see them again. I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him; and suddenly he hears that his companions are alive, that they have escaped and that there is hope also for him. And he fears to believe this, because it would be so terrible if it proved to be false, and nothing would remain but prison and the expectation of execution. ↗

— P.D. Ouspensky

#religion #truth #death

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#storytelling #truth #dreams

Phd without common sense is nonsense ↗

— sekoni sullivan

#truth #education

The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance ↗