What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
For starters, deep and meaningful meditation often behaves like a love interest who’s out of your league, or a cat. The more ardently you pursue it, the more contemptuously it ignores you.
… if we can convince the universe that we can build leather, it will be much easier to convince the universe that we can build meat.
You have an appointment with life—you should not miss it. The time and the space of your appointment is the here and the now. If you miss the present moment, if you miss the here and the now, you miss your appointment with life.
‘You know, you’re a little complicated after all.’
‘Oh no,’ she assured him hastily. ‘No, I’m not really- I’m just a- I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.’
— F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night (via human-voices)
Those who are careless with the truth in smaller matters can never be trusted with important matters.
— Albert Einstein (via thelittlephilosopher)
