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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.


Chögyam Trungpa


#buddhism #crescendo #enlightenment #humanity #humor

I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us.


Mary Ellen Edmunds


#life

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.


Toba Beta


#force-majeure #latent #life #reality #secret

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.


Richard M. Nixon


#relationships #life

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.


Criss Jami


#contentment #dictator #honest #humble #humility

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y. 'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said. 'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to understand how people have answered that question and the questions each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.


John Green


#labyrinth #living #lost #maze #rotten-life

Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we?


Dave Eggers


#life

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?


Stanisław Lem


#life #mountain #perception #reality #stone

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.


Steven L. Peck


#existentialism #frustration #hell #life #wisdom

CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.


Samuel Beckett


#life






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