“The body suffers more than the soul, because the soul can always find something to hang on to, a memory, a hope.”
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Monthly Archives: October 2004
John-Paul Sartre, Les Mots / Words
“Yet he loved, he wanted to live and he saw himself dying; that is enough to make up a whole man.”
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“But he who has a pact with aloneness can even now prepare the way for all this that in the future may well be possible for many, and can build with hands less apt to err. Therefore, dear friend, embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out [...]
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Christina Feldman, Silence
“Our wish to flee from the noise of the world may be a disguised wish to flee from the noise of our own internal monologues.”
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Henry Miller
“When we speak of a person getting to grips with himself, accepting himself for what he is, we do not simply mean that he admits and recognizes his weaknesses but that he also discovers how important they were in his evolution.”
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Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
“Doing something is expressing our own nature. We exist for the sake of ourselves. We do not exist for the sake of something else.”
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Christina Feldman, Silence
“We will not take ourselves intact into enlightenment.”
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