wisdom

"What's the most complete span of a life, you ask? To live until attaining wisdom. Whoever reaches that goal ends furthest, not at a point but greatest. Let that man rejoice boldly in the truth, and give thanks to the gods, and to himself among these; let him credit the cosmos for his creation, and deservedly so, for he returns to the cosmos a better life than the one he got. He has set the template of the good man, and revealed its measure and its quality. If he had added anything to it, the addition would have been similar to what came before." — How to Die, Seneca

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”

“How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future – but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him, but dies in a way as if he were never born"

Slowly is the fastest way to get you where you want to be.

“No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”  —Carl Jung

You're a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space.

Fear Nothing.

"Uncommunicated expectations are premeditated resentments."

—Neil Strauss

"The journey is to go from Somebody to Nobody."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

"Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in morning’s hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die."

“People sometimes fail to live
because they are always 
preparing to live”

— Alan Watts

“Most of us walk without chains, yet we aren't free. We're tethered to regret and sorrow from the past.
We return to the past and continue to suffer. The past is a prison. But now you have the key to unlock the door and arrive in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything I know about my light was taught to me by my darkness.