Quotes

In the face of our inevitable mortality we can do one of two things. we can attempt to avoid the thought at all costs, clinging to the illusion that we have all the time in the world. Or we can confront this reality, accept and even embrace it, converting our consciousness of death into something positive and active.

In adopting such a fearless philosophy, we gain a sense of proportion, become able to separate what is petty from what is truly important. Knowing our days to be numbered, we have a sense of urgency and mission. We can appreciate life all the more for its impermanence. If we can overcome the fear of death, then there is nothing left to fear.
(Robert Greene and 50 Cent)

Identification with the mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God. It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate “other”. You then forget the essential fact that underneath the level of physical appearances and separate forms, you are one with all that is. By “forget”, I mean that you can no longer feel this oneness as self-evident reality. You may believe it to be true, but you no longer know it to be true. A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating. (Eckhart Tolle)

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. (General George S. Patton, Jr.)

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. (Thucydides)

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. (Buddha)

Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

Confess your hidden faults.
Approach what you find repulsive.
Help those you think you cannot help.
Anything you are attached to, let it go.
Go to places that scare you.
(Advice to Machik Labdron from her teacher)

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies. (Che Guevara)

I don’t like things very much. I like being surrounded by a space that I think is really beautiful. There’s no one thing I could have that’s as beautiful as sun coming in through skylights against a nice brick wall. (Moby)

If you knew who walked beside you, at all times, on this path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again. (Dr. Wayne Dyer, quoting ACIM)

Whatever it is you decide to do, consciously keep yourself open and available to receiving a vision of what is next. It will come. When it comes, it usually won’t be a detailed vision. You will probably have a sense of what direction to move in, but the practical steps might not make themselves clear. When the impulse… begins to arise, act on it. Don’t wait for the details. (David Deida)