#ss

If you fuel your journey on the enthusiasm of others, you are going to run out of gas. ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #success #wisdom

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#recovery #friendship

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence. ↗

— Nancy J. Napier

#essence #meditation #experience

What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#toleration #business

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #coco-j-ginger #friendship #i-love-him #i-love-you

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ↗

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat? ↗

— Grant Morrison

#food #joker #madness #food

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

Success is being right all the time, and still fail. ↗

— Anonymous

#right #success #experience

Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience. ↗

— S.L. Varnado

#redbeans-rainbows #the-depression-humor #experience