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“His old self that had sought happiness itself had dissolved, replaced by just a deep, expanding stillness that was completely empty yet strangely filled with life, energy, and bliss”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“The instinctual desire to separate and hold on to individual identities was the root of suffering”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“He was breaking into pieces, falling, fluid, boundaryless, merging into Nani Maa, just one giant heart that felt her fear, her sadness, her goodness, her pride, her love, like his own.”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“Writers are scribes of the human experience. To write about life we must see it and feel it, and in a way that eludes most … we are alive in a way that others are not. We are all about meaning. About subtext. We notice what others don’t. If the purpose of the human experience is to immerse ourselves in growth and enlightenment, moving closer and closer to whatever spiritual truth you seek - hopefully have a few laughs and a few tears along the way - wearing the nametag of a writer makes that experience more vivid. We’re hands-on with life, and in the process of committing our observations to the page we add value to it for others.”
― Story Engineering
― Story Engineering
“The way out of the cycle was to sublimate the I principle, relinquish all individual desire, to restrain the naturally outgoing mind fueled by the senses and turn it inward. Once it focused within, the mind saw its real nature of pure consciousness and rejected the individual desires and thoughts surrounding it.”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
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