Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Man is given a definite number of experiences– economizing them, he prolongs his life.

— G. I Gurdjieff

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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

~W.B. Yeats

The human is the being in whom the earth has become spiritually aware,
has awakened into consciousness,
has become self-aware and self-reflecting.
In the human, the earth begins to reflect on itself.
In our deepest definition and deepest subjectivity,
we humans are the earth. Conscious.
You and I are the beings in whom the earth
thinks… knows… comprehends… analyzes…
rationalizes… judges… remembers…
chooses…acts…decides.

– Miriam Therese MacGillis in “The Fate of the Earth”

I’ve been looking for a long, long time,
for this thing called love,
I’ve ridden comets across the sky,
and I’ve looked below and above.
Then one day I looked inside myself,
and this is what I found,
A golden sun residing there,
beaming forth God’s light and sound.

— Rumi

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

― Wendell Berry

When you find the way others will find you.
Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door.
The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice.
The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes.

~ Lao Tzu

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.

~John O’Donohue

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

–Renoir

Being one with the earth, observe your Self.

Everything is a reflection of your own Self. Do  Divine World Breathing.