#sm

Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-meditation #cosmic-ordering-meditation #meditation #meditations #meditative

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#profundity #cosmic-ordering

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #face #literature #literature-quotes #moment

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #outsmart #poetry

In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up of organized matter; in comparison with catholicism, which saw him as the unwitting plaything of an imperious unseen power (the Divine Will); in comparison with dialectical materialism, which saw him as unwitting plaything of the deterministic evolution of the means of production- existentialism made man a god ↗

— Ali Shariati

#school-of-thoughts #catholicism

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk. ↗

— Libba Bray

#existentialism

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes. ↗

— Phoebe Stone

#existential #loneliness #existentialism

I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being. ↗

— Therese Doucet

#existentialism #lds #mormon #existentialism