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""The futility of the samsara. Samsara is preferring death to life. It comes from always trying to create safety zones. We get stuck here because we cling to a funny little identity that gives us some kind of security, painful though it may be. The fourth reminder is to remember the futility of this strategy."" Jun 22, 2022 10:06PM

 
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Immanuel Kant
“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
Immanuel Kant

Susanna Clarke
“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Later, when Ged thought back upon that night, he knew that had none had touched him when he lay thus spirit-lost, had none called him back in some way, he might have been lost for good. It was only the dumb instinctive wisdom of the beast who licks his hurt companion to comfort him, and yet in that wisdom Ged saw something akin to his own power, something that went as deep as wizardry. From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Why should I seek more?
I am the same as he.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself.”
Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Anne Brontë
“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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