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#1

“To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.”
― Osho

tags: acceptance, openness

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#2

“The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: adventure, alchemy-of-words, debut-fiction, inspire-the-world, poetry, thomas-lloyd-qualls, waking-up-at-rembrandt-s, words, writers-on-writing, writing

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#3

“The painter folded back the heavy curtain, standing in the stream of light breaking through the damp thickness of the room. He paused, still holding the drape in his hand as he considered with suspicion that a world could exist outside the window.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: art, artists, artists-life, focus, focus-on-your-dreams, painters, painting

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#4

“To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep. The landscape of the canvas becomes your only reality. The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: art, artists, artists-life, focus, focus-on-your-dreams, painters, painting

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#5

“The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: art, artists, artists-life, beauty, creativity, painters, painting

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#6

“You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you’ve left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: artists, free-thinkers, freedom-of-thought, thinking, thoughts, troublemakers

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#7

“The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: artists, beauty, illusions, painting

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#8

“In the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: duality, illusions, light-and-darkness, luminous, spirituality

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#9

“i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, love jaywalks

tags: duality, love, sexuality, tantra

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#10

“love has no master.
love knows no yesterday.

love seeks no tomorrow.
love needs nothing.

and nothing can be
taken from love.
love is terrifyingly complete.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, love jaywalks

tags: love, poetry-quotes-love

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#11

“Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: duality, illusion, light-and-darkness, oneness, shadow-self, wholeness

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#12

“words are a border collie’s
worst nightmare.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, love jaywalks

tags: poems-on-writing, poetry, words, writing, writing-process

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#13

“It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We’re much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: disillusionment, getting-stuck, growing-up, imaginary-things, life

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#14

“the painter had no need for grammar.
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, love jaywalks

tags: art, painters, painting, writers

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#15

“You are tired of always needing answers. Always answering questions. Always asking questions that demand answers. Pretending all the questions have to be answered. Pretending there are actually answers. And even getting paid to convince others they’re true. That there is such a thing as right answers.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: getting-stuck-in-your-head, life, questions-about-life, questions-and-answers

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#16

“Life isn’t really linear. Although it’s generally perceived that way. The stories we tell are woven like snakes around a divining rod. A center of time containing all that’s ever been told and heard. Remembered and forgotten. Lost and found. Our pasts, presents and futures are unwound, stretched flat, cut into pieces and held up with human arms.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: illusions, life, linear-thinking, linear-time, stories, time

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#17

“It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Somewhere between perception and reality. Between what is spoken and what is heard. Between what is written and what is edited out. I know this, you can’t have an ending without a beginning. Even if they are really just random pieces of the middle that tend to stand out. Staccato notes on the page. Points on a circle.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

tags: beginnings, beginnings-and-endings, endings, stories

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#18

“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: inspiration

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#19

“At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: contemplative-fiction, courage, hero-s-journey, inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, literary-fiction, quest, self-discovery, spiritual-fiction

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#20

“Prometheus stole fire from the gods. We are each the heirs of that divine spark. Used wisely, the spark fuels one's journey and lights the way. Treated carelessly, the spark consumes its owner and everything in its path.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: fire, hero-s-journey, inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, literary-fiction, metaphysical, spark-of-life, spiritual-fiction, spirituality

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#21

“Without bridges, there are no connections. Without bridges, there are only chasms. Without bridges, there are only longings. We cannot wait for the land to flatten and the stream to narrow before we seek to cross.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: community, connections, contemplative-fiction, humanity, inspirational-quotes, life-quotes, literary-fiction, metaphysical-quotes, philosophy, spiritual-fiction

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#22

“A dream is not to be taken lightly. A dream is a powerful ally, coming to your aid. A magic tale, written in invisible ink. A golden thread, tying together the worlds.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: contemplative-fiction, dream-quotes, dreams, dreams-inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life-quotes, literary-fiction, metaphysical-quotes, philosophy, spiritual-fiction

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#23

“Every answer can be followed by another question.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: inspirational-quotes, journey, life-questions, life-quotes, literary-fiction, metaphysical, philosophy, self-awareness, spiritual-fiction, spirituality

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#24

“The monk wakes from a dream into a world of mists and thunderclouds. The clouds play children's games with him. They show him dissolving images of yaks and sheep, serpents and hawks, angels and dragons. He closes his eyes and the clouds count to ten. He opens his eyes and they look for him.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: heroes-journey, inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, literary-fiction, metaphysical, philosophy, self-awareness, spiritual-fiction, spirituality

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#25

“Life must be taken a step at a time. All else is madness.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, literary-fiction, madness, metaphysical, philosophy, self-awareness, spiritual-fiction, spirituality

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#26

“We think our world into being.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, literary-fiction, metaphysical, philosophy, quantum-physics, self-awareness, spiritual-fiction, spirituality

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#27

“Holding onto misery only brings more misery into focus. All possibilities exist. But the mind has only room for one thing at a time.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, metaphysical, misery-quotes, philosophy, quantum-physics, quantum-reality, self-awareness, spirituality

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#28

“Things are often not what they seem. And then, sometimes they are. The trick is to learn what is real.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: illusion-quotes, illusions, inspirational-quotes, life-quotes, metaphysical-quotes, philosophy, self-awareness, spiritual-fiction, spirituality, veil-of-perception

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#29

“Sometimes I have trouble telling my dreams from reality. The farther I travel from some experience, the more unsure I am that it actually happened. Just like a dream, the closer I am to it, the more sure I am that it's real.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: dream-quotes, dreams, illusions, life-quotes, metaphysical-quotes, philosophy, reality, self-awareness, spirituality, what-is-real

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#30

“The world is as big as our ideas of it.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

tags: empowering-quotes, empowerment, inspirational-quotes, journey, life-quotes, metaphysical, philosophy, reality-quotes, self-awareness, spirituality

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