“Even if you appear to be a mere drop; Do not forget, the entire ocean resides inside you.”
“Prioritize the items you feel strongest about or are the most time sensitive, and strike off the items you feel “meh” about. We’re not here to design a lukewarm life.”
“Don’t believe everything the world teaches you, what you worry about learning may not be true at all. Be your light.”
“the need for control is so strong that we d rather have something be our fault than succumb to the bumper-sticker wisdom of shit happens.”
“Take action today because you cannot wish your communication problems away”
“Nothing happens if we don’t make it happen. We can’t get the job we don’t apply for. We can’t date the guy we don’t text back. We can’t have good mental health if we don’t take action to break out of limiting thought patterns and anxious drama loops.”
“Loving, hopeful, optimistic thoughts are the finest anti-inflammatory and antioxidant pills in the universe. Hateful, fearful thoughts are like swallowing poison.”
“Living an emotionally authentic life is what makes each and every one of us interesting and it is only then that healing can take place.”
“Don t become a footnote in your own Autobiography.”
“It’s an odd paradox: life’s challenges have the capability to actually make us happier in the end.”
“There is loneliness Shadows floating in dreams, Silences roaming in noise, Closeness sharing in separation, Sparks blooning in rain, Don’t know what it brings It fills you in every moment of mine Loneliness, loneliness , loneliness Deeper, Tenuous However it was, it was enough for us those days are pleasant In which both of us live. Don’t know what those moments that are repeating, It fills you in every moment of mine. Its loneliness, loneliness, loneliness What is it? What was it? That is inside both of them, it not lost yet despite of its loss, Is it pain? Or confusion? Or emptiness? The rest is somewhere deep inside. Don’t know what these moments have chosen for me, If fills you every moment of mine. Loneliness, loneliness, loneliness __ Kirti kangra”
“You are not only something that is. You are something that is becoming — and the potential extent of that becoming also transcends your understanding.”
“I have been searching for decades for certainty. It has not been solely a matter of thinking, in the creative sense, but of thinking and then attempting to undermine and destroy those thoughts, followed by careful consideration and conservation of those that survive. It is identification of a path forward through a swampy passage, searching for stones to stand on safely below the murky surface. However, even though I regard the inevitability of suffering and its exaggeration by malevolence as unshakable truths, I believe even more deeply that people have the ability to transcend their suffering, psychologically, and practically, and to constrain their own malevolence, as well as the evils that characterise the social and the natural worlds.”
“You can t complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren t trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself.”
“If the soul doesn t exist, how is it possible to converse with oneself ? Or, hear your own voice?”
“Most people, who choose or are coerced into only identifying with “positive” feelings, usually wind up in an emotionally lifeless middle ground – bland, deadened, and dissociated in an unemotional “no-man’s-land.” Moreover, when a person tries to hold onto a preferred feeling for longer than its actual tenure, she often appears as unnatural and phony as ersatz grass or plastic flowers. If instead, she learns to surrender willingly to the normal human experience that good feelings always ebb and flow, she will eventually be graced with a growing ability to renew herself in the vital waters of emotional flexibility. The repression of the so-called negative polarities of emotion causes much unnecessary pain, as well as the loss of many essential aspects of the feeling nature. In fact, much of the plethora of loneliness, alienation, and addictive distraction that plagues modern industrial societies is a result of people being taught and forced to reject, pathologize or punish so many of their own and others’ normal feeling states. Nowhere, not in the deepest recesses of the self, or in the presence of his closest friends, is the average person allowed to have and explore any number of normal emotional states. Anger, depression, envy, sadness, fear, distrust, etc., are all as normal a part of life as bread and flowers and streets. Yet, they have become ubiquitously avoided and shameful human experiences. How tragic this is, for all of these emotions have enormously important and healthy functions in a wholly integrated psyche. One dimension where this is most true is in the arena of healthy self-protection. For without access to our uncomfortable or painful feelings, we are deprived of the most fundamental part of our ability to notice when something is unfair, abusive, or neglectful in our environments. Those who cannot feel their sadness often do not know when they are being unfairly excluded, and those who cannot feel their normal angry or fearful responses to abuse, are often in danger of putting up with it without protest. Perhaps never before has humankind been so alienated from so many of its normal feeling states, as it is in the twenty-first century. Never before have so many human beings been so emotionally deadened and impoverished. The disease of emotional emaciation is epidemic. Its effects on health are often euphemistically labeled as stress, and like the emotions, stress is often treated like some unwanted waste that must be removed.”
“Wealth that can last generations can now be attained in the shortest time ever in history.”