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“If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice?”
― Maha Ghosananda

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”
― Bhagavad Gita

“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one of which was you.”
― Mary Oliver

“the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.”
― Rilke-Gesellschaft, Rilke, die Donaumonarchie und ihre Nachfolgestaaten: Vorträge der Jahrestagung der Rilke-Gesellschaft 1993 in Budapest (Budapester Beiträge zur Germanistik)

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi