Quotes From 2021
I love words. Here are some I read, received, or heard & resonated with.
Enjoy!
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
Theodore Roosevelt
If we let go of the list of things that we want to accomplish and acquire, we would be living our dream. BB The Gifts of Imperfection
Part of being in your power and shining as brilliantly as you were meant to has to do with how well you listen to your life. The real way to glow always has to do with being in service to what’s guiding you rather than trying to be in control of it. Chani Nicholas
Lao Tzu: Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
When you go against the flow, you suffer.
When you go with the flow, you enjoy the ride.
-Dark Night of the Soul article
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” –Rumi
"The meaning of life is just to be alive". - Alan Watts
From Ed
Ernest Hemingway showed us that safety is an illusion and that life is a wild adventure or nothing at all.
We are all mayflies and we don’t even know it. Irene Muldowney
7-25-21
“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.” BB
“Feeling discontent is exciting. Discontent is the nagging of the imagination. Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering: Not this.”
Glennon Doyle
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. Ram Dass
When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent...you sort of understand that it didn't get enough light, and so it turned that way. Ans you don't get all emotional about it. You just allow it. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying "you are too this, or I'm too this." That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are. -Ram Dass
If someone is falling behind in life,
you don't have to remind them.
Believe me, they already know.
If someone is unhealthy, they know.
If someone is failing at work, they know.
If someone is struggling in their relationships, with money,
with self-image...they know.
It's what consumes their thoughts each day.
What you need to do for those who are struggling is not to reprimand, but encourage.
Tell them what's good about their lives,
show them the potential that you see. Love them where they are.
When we can't see clearly for ourselves, we need others to speak greatness over us.
People don't need you to tell them
what's wrong with their lives, they already know.
They need you to reassure them that they can still make it right.
-Brianna Wiest-
The Minds Journal
We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
Terence McKenna
The flow is at the intersection of discipline and surrender. Jason Silva
Here are some inspiring words from Albert Einstein: 🙏💫
“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. There is no matter.”
"Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world."
“Time does not exist – we invented it. Time is what the clock says. The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
"A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Our separation from each other is an optical illusion."
“When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”
“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
“The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.”
“The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike. We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.”
“I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”
"The common idea that I am an atheist is based on a big mistake. Anyone who interprets my scientific theories this way did not understand them."
"Everything is determined, every beginning and ending, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
“Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
"I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care about money. Decorations, titles, or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. I claim credit for nothing. A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
"We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth."
"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”
"Unexamined cultural values & limitations of language have made us unwitting prisoners of our own assumptions."
“Personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.”
~Terence McKenna
Never underestimate the power of your presence. We can bring joy to others just by showing up.
Evelyn Lynch
