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‘I’m the size of what I see!’ Each time I think on this phrase with all my nerves, the more it seems destined to redesign the whole starry universe. ‘I’m the size of what I see!’ How large are the mind’s riches, ranging from the well of profound emotions to the distant stars that are reflected in it and so in some sense are there!
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
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If you have an imperfect version of a work you really love, you may find that when it finally seems perfect, you don’t love it in the same way. This is a sign the imperfect version was actually the one. The work is not about perfection.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way, or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that managed to create the entire perfection of the universe around me?
Michael A. Singer • The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection
As you expand your heart and go past your resistance to letting go, you comprehend yourself as an omnipresent, eternal being—one that dwells in a multidimensional state, timeless and immortal.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Life is whatever we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an empire. For a Caesar whose empire is still not enough, the empire is a field. The poor man possesses an empire, the great man a field. All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that w
... See moreFernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
It is consciously being what we really are - Capacity for things - the Space in which each of them is allowed to arrive at its peculiar kind of perfection. It is consciously viewing everything from its Source, reuniting it with the Infinity that lies this side of it. It is hearing, seeing, smelling, touching things as if for the first time, relieve
... See moreDouglas Harding • On Having No Head
there are myriad things that you see at any given moment, yet you only narrate a few of them. The ones you discuss in your mind are the ones that matter to you. With this subtle form of preprocessing, you manage to control the experience of reality so that it all fits together inside your mind. Your consciousness is actually experiencing your menta
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