Philosophy
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers"
-Kahlil Gibran
“The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away, and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well, and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.
Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impotent because religion can only reach as far as the mind can go
Renee Solana • Tweet
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
Istra of Glome • Tweet
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield