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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
“There comes a point when we have to say, I'm here to love my life, and to figure out who I am...Not who you think I should be”
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“Success is often experienced through the absence of a past sensation rather than the presence of a new one.”
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“When your inner world is fragmented, the outer world is broken. When inner world is flowery and unbroken, the outer world is healed by your presence.”
― Walking the Path of Compassion
― Walking the Path of Compassion
“Take no pride in the body,
It will soon be mingling with the dust.
This life is like the sporting of sparrows,
It will end with the onset of the night.”
― Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems
It will soon be mingling with the dust.
This life is like the sporting of sparrows,
It will end with the onset of the night.”
― Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems
“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."
"Everyone?" said Arthur.
"Well, if everyone has that perhaps it means something!
Perhaps somewhere outside the Universe we know..."
"Maybe. Who cares?" said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. "Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding what out really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."
"Everyone?" said Arthur.
"Well, if everyone has that perhaps it means something!
Perhaps somewhere outside the Universe we know..."
"Maybe. Who cares?" said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. "Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding what out really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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