*freedom from craving is the end of all suffering*
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance”
-Confucius
“A loveless world is a dead world.”— Albert Camus, from Selected Works; “The Plague,” published c. 1947
“But how to explain my obsession with destruction? Not self-immolation, / but more of a disintegration, slow, like…. sugar in water. // I dissolve.”— Erika Meitner, from “Big Box Encounter,” Copia (via lifeinpoetry)
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Development of a human face, from an embryo to an adult. Lebensalter und Geschlechter. 1926.
“Spiritual love never hurts; it is only the narrow expression of ‘human love’ (emotional attachments, projected fantasies, egoic expectations & conditions) pretending to be love is what brings on the feelings of personal pain & suffering.” -Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)
There is no one on this earth who does anything. The whole universe is a puppet show. We’re dancing the dance of Shiva. We think we’re something important. But we’re really nothing as we appear. Your job is to observe, to watch, to see what’s going on and not to react to anything that is happening but to stay separate from the happenings. To separate yourself from what is happening. What’s happening is happening to the ‘I’, to the ego, not to you. Nothing can ever happen to you. For your true nature is Brahman, absolute reality, pure awareness.
~ Robert Adams
“Despite what you may believe, you can disappoint people and still be good enough. You can make mistakes and still be capable and talented. You can let people down and still be worthwhile and deserving of love. Everyone has disappointed someone they care about. Everyone messes up, lets people down, and makes mistakes. Not because we’re inadequate or fundamentally inept, but because we’re imperfect and fundamentally human. Expecting anything different is setting yourself up for failure.”— Daniell Koepke