#to

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life. ↗

— Keith Donohue

#life

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, “What are you made of?” After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, “HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope! ↗

— Jay Grewal

#enlightenment #god #hope #inspirational #motivational

Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we read them aloud. ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#sounds #writing #life

Let them judge me as they like, I could deceive them, but myself I cannot deceive...and strange to say, in this acknowledgement of his baseness there was something painful yet joyful and quieting. More than once in Nekhlyudov's life there had been what he called, 'a cleansing of the soul.' A state of mind in which, after a long period of sluggish inner life...he began to clear out all the rubbish that had accumulated in his soul and caused the cessation of true life. After such an awakening, Nekhlyudov always made some rules for himself...wrote in his diary, began afresh... ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#ressurrection #life

Judaism teaches us the sentence, “The Lord is One,” is not exclusive to Adonai, but rather inclusive of everything, everything, everything! Did you get that? Everything is One. This means far more than the teaching we are all connected. That teaching could be speaking biologically, or even atomically. I am talking about more than even the microscopic connection we all share. More than our DNA. ↗

— Laura Weakley

#inspirational-religious #jewishness #judaism #torah #inspirational

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#life

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#life #things #victory #wealth #life

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#prejudice #racism #skin #victory #life

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #existence #intuition #life #love

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur. ↗

— David Attenborough

#life