5 Quotes & Sayings By Saunsea

Saunsea West is a professional freelance writer specializing in health, nutrition, fitness and lifestyle. She has been published in a variety of online and print publications including The Huffington Post, Shape Magazine, and Yahoo Lifestyle. Her writing also appears on the Huffington Post's Healthy Living page. She currently trains as a yoga instructor and is a certified holistic health counselor.

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True happiness is realized beyond circumstance. It is universal relationship, not centered or devoted or residing on other individual relationships we have. True happiness sees the actions of others as directly connected to who we ourselves are. It sees beyond individually separated relationships and is birthed from one great relationship with everything there is. Saunsea
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Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace because we are under the illusion that peace is something external, something to be obtained. Saunsea
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On the surface, we come to understand that who we are is something separate from all other objects in the world. This is the first and primary of illusions we are taught to believe after having been welcomed to the human world. I do not use the word “illusion” in a negative sense, but in a necessary one. Just as the enjoyment of a film or theatrical play may depend upon the ability of the actors to woo the audience into believing the world they are portraying; the enjoyment of life may also be found in our own ability to wield the power of illusion. . Saunsea
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The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship. Saunsea