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❝ The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. ❞
Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via nirvikalpa)
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❝ Whatsoever is the case is the case. Accept it and let it come - let it come in front of you. In fact, just to say ‘do not repress’ is not enough. If you allow me, I would like to say ‘befriend it.’ You are feeling sad, befriend it. Have compassion for it. Sadness also has a being. Allow it, embrace it, sit with it, hold hands with it. ❞
Osho (via nirvikalpa)
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❝ Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die. Whatever happened, happened for the good; whatever is happening, is happening for the good; whatever will happen, will also happen for the good only. You need not have any regrets for the past. You need not worry for the future. The present is happening…right now. What did you lose that you cry about? What did you bring with you, which you think you have lost? What did you produce, which you think got destroyed? You did not bring anything - whatever you have, you received from here. Whatever you have given, you have given only here. Whatever you took, you took from God. Whatever you gave, you gave to Him. You came empty handed, you will leave empty handed. You came with nothing, you will leave with nothing. What is yours today, belonged to someone else yesterday, and will belong to someone else the day after tomorrow. You are mistakenly enjoying the thought that this is yours. It is this false happiness that is the cause of your sorrows. Change is the law of the universe. What you think of as death, is indeed life. In one instance you can be a millionaire, and in the other instance, you can be steeped in poverty. Yours and mine, big and small - erase these ideas from your mind. Then everything is yours and you belong to everyone. This body is not yours, neither are you of the body. The body is made of fire, water, air, earth and ether, and will disappear into these elements. But the soul is permanent - so who are you? ❞
The Bhagavad Gita (via nirvikalpa)
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This album is everything I’ve ever dreamed of. I am so in love.
❝ Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. ❞
Iyanla Vanzant (via nirvikalpa)
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One day, princess Sita saw a wounded deer in the woods, and she begged Rama to go and help it. Rama drew a circle in the ground and said to her ”This is a magic circle. So long as you stay inside it, no harm can come to you.” That night, the princess heard a horrible cry. Thinking it was her beloved Rama in danger, the princess ran from the circle to answer the cry. She soon came across an old beggar man. Although she had no money to give him, she could not refuse his plea. As soon as he had the bracelet, he transformed into the ten-headed demon, Ravana. He grabs her and takes her to his palace, where he intends to make her his bride.
The evil Ravana locked the princess up in his tower. There she stayed for many weeks, just staring out her window, missing her Prince Rama terribly.
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❝ I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. ❞
Franz Kafka (via nirvikalpa)
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