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#1

“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

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#2

“Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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#3

“You don’t get any special credit, is what I’m saying, for knowing how to be afraid of the unknown. Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one . . . but it ain’t especially smart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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#4

“This is why we have to be careful of how we handle our fear—because I’ve noticed that when people try to kill off their fear, they often end up inadvertently murdering their creativity in the process.
So I don’t try to kill off my fear. I don’t go to war against it. Instead, I make all that space for it...
It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. In fact, I cordially invite fear to come along with me everywhere I go.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

tags: anxiety, artists-life, creativity, fear

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#5

“Kali's nakedness shows that she has cast away illusion; in her, the entire truth about life and death is revealed. Even her color is esoteric; Kali's dark colors stand for the ultimate void state, where as differences dissolve into the absolute beyond all form. Her sword is the force that slices delusion, ignorance, false hope, and lies. Her position on top of Shiva reveals that she is the dynamic force in the universe, the power that churns the stillness of the void, so worlds can be created inside that transcendent nothingness.”
― Sally Kempton, Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation

tags: dark-goddess, divine-feminine, goddess-kali, hindu-goddess, kali-ma

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#6

“Whether Kali seems terrifying, fascinating, or loving depends on our state of consciousness and our level of both emotional and spiritual development. But she always invites us to a radical form ego-transcendence.”
― Sally Kempton, Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation

tags: dark-goddess, divine-feminine, goddess-kali, hindu-goddess

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#7

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

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#8

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

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#9

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

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#10

“How would you behave if you knew you were a God or Goddess? How would you treat yourself, how would you treat others? What kind of consciousness would you hold about your smallest actions if you knew their effects influenced the rest of creation? If your awakenings could bring joy to the multitudes? What kind of mindfulness would that inspire?”
― Anodea Judith, Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self

tags: chakra-system, chakras, higher-self, inner-goddess, the-seven-chakras

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#11

“Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.”
― Anodea Judith, Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self

tags: chakra-system, chakras, grounding, higher-self, inner-goddess, the-seven-chakras

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#12

“When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.”
― Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

tags: divine-feminine, feminine-spirituality, goddess-kali, inner-goddess, kali-ma, mahakali

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#13

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

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#14

“The true opposite of wisdom, after all, is not ignorance but arrogance. Ignorance is a perfectly respectable state of being. Ignorance is the state of all eventual knowledge. Arrogance is where the danger lies.”
― Dan Zigmond, Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well

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#15

“The task of a craftsman, they conclude, “is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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#16

“Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.”
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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#17

“It is Maya that makes you feel, “This man is inferior and the other man is superior.”
― Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati, Satsanga and Svadhyaya

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#18

“There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”
― Rumi

tags: rumi

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#19

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#20

“There are no ordinary moments.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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#21

“There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

tags: holistic-health, inspirational, philosophy, self-help

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#22

“Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.

- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.

- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure

- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

tags: inspirational-life

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#23

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

tags: forever, get, heart, pain, still, suffer, want

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#24

“Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

tags: inspirational, wisdom

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#25

“If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.”
― Dan Millman

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#26

“What a vicious circle we can put ourselves in: we have come to accept the notion of "fix me first," when part of the essential fixing we all need is to be compassionately involved with others.”
― Bo Lozoff, It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

tags: community-service, compassion, humility, meaningful-life, service, service-of-humanity, serving-others, serving-people, spiritual-journey, spiritual-path

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#27

“Ozai: What I'm saying is this -- There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because ”
― Gene Luen Yang, Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3

tags: fire-lord-zuko, good-and-bad, morality, ozai, personal-evolution, spiritual-wisdom, zuko

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#28

“The body tells the truth regardless of if we speak its language or not. ... Often my practice has focused on trying to meet my body where it is, instead of constantly trying to get it to meet me where I am.”
― Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger

tags: embodiment, love-and-rage, somatic-psychology, spiritual-social-justice, total-liberation

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#29

“I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change…I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy…and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that. —GUS SPETH, environmental lawyer and scientist”
― Britt Wray, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

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#30

“Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people
and share the flaws of their builders.”
― Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

tags: brahmanism, dharma-studies, hinduism, intersectionality, religious-studies, social-justice, tarana-burke, yoga, yoga-studies

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