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“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point of
egoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?

Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-
oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but only
as far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself.
And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,
preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body I
mean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family,
tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name and
shape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither body
nor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.
Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybody
he meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am the
world, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es-
tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfish
means to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the part
against the whole.

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj”
― -Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."

[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]”
― William Hazlitt, Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr

“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)”
― William Hazlitt

“Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
― William Hazlitt

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”
― William Hazlitt

“La vérité est comme le soleil, elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.”
― Victor Hugo

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sacred space” is another way of saying “with intention.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

“Sometimes you can be heard just saying what you have to say. Other times you just have to find your inner ROAR!”
― Jan Porter, Sacred Space, mind body soul after Sexual Abuse: An Inspiring Healing Guide for Survivors By; Jan Porter

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination