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“One day, you’ll look back and wish you were as young as you are now. So enjoy it while you can.”
“Wherever the mind has a lot of attachment, we will experience intense suffering, intense grief, intense difficulty right there. The place we experience the most problems is the place we have the most attraction, longing and concern. Please try to resolve this.
Now, while you still have life and breath, keep on looking at it and reading it until you are able to ‘translate’ it and solve the problem.”
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Now, while you still have life and breath, keep on looking at it and reading it until you are able to ‘translate’ it and solve the problem.”
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“When people are blocked creatively, they avoid fun. Why? Because fun leads straight to creativity. Fun leads to healthy anarchy, to festive rebellion, to sensing our own strength and power. Feeling our own power is often frightening.”
― Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
― Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON”
― Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
― Artists Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
“Love. What was it, really? The desire to possess someone, or the desire to free them?”
― Speaks the Nightbird
― Speaks the Nightbird
“It may seem difficult at first, but all things are difficult at first.”
― The Book of Five Rings
― The Book of Five Rings
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