I remembered Patel’s words, “Surrender is not giving up, it is worship.” “Show me how to step, ” I said, “so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.
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Richard Payment
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes”...
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Eckhart Tolle
TRIPPING OVER JOYWhat is the difference Between your experience of ExistenceAnd that of a saint? The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with GodAnd that the BelovedHas just made such a Fantastic MoveThat the saint is now continually Tripping over...
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Anonymous
Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!
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Joyce Meyer
It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.
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Jonathan Franzen
More Quotes By Jonathan Franzen
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.
He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner...
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
