#wisdom

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#philosophy #suffering #wisdom #zen #zen-buddhism

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#empathy #intuition #prophet #wisdom #intuition

Wherever I go, I run into myself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #myself #myself-quatation #poems

I recreate myself; that is my only power. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #myself #poems #poetry

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#comfort #deceit #deceive #dejan-stojanovic #literature

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #ocean #poems #poetry

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #night #poetry #poetry-quotes

When all is lost, there is still a memory. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #lost #lost-world #memory

You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#darkness #dejan-stojanovic #light #light-within #literature

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#positivity