Steven

[Philosophy Of Life @PhilOfLife_]

A lack of personal purpose leads to romantic obsession

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

A quote often attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche…

"Do not fall victim to excessive idealism and believe that telling the truth will bring you closer to people. People love and reward those who can soothe them with illusions. Since ancient times, humanity has only punished those who speak the truth. If you want to stay among people, share their illusions. The truth is spoken only by those who are ready to depart."

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”

— Albert Camus, The First Man

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

sometimes

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

we pray for success but rarely talk about what success can do to our circle and relationships. the jealousy, envy, entitlement and resentment usually don't show up until you start doing better. success changes how people see you and makes people treat your progress differently.

[Eckhart Tolle Quotes @EckTOLLEQuotes]

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Adam Grant on lifelong learning:

“A key to lifelong learning is to see everyone you meet as a potential teacher. Each interaction is a chance to question old assumptions and gain new perspectives. Collecting lessons from others is the fastest way to fill gaps in your experience.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Two Thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche:

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

unpublished emily dickinson poem

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

— Rumi, Words of Paradise

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

My therapist asked me what I would do with my time if no one needed anything from me for a full week. I said I had no idea. She asked if that felt like freedom or like panic. Panic, I said, immediately. She said, when empty time feels like a threat, it means your identity is entirely built on being needed. And that is a fragile thing to build a life on. I drove home and looked at my diary and noticed how little of it was actually mine.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul.”

― Khalil Gibran

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.”

--Chuang Tzu

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"What threatens us today is fear. .. Our danger is the forces in the world today which are trying to use man’s fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass."

—William Faulkner

[alexei @alexeixbt]

study yourself. your patterns. habits. compulsions. trauma. anxieties. insecurities. addictions. once you see them, the unconscious becomes conscious. and the moment you know what they are and how they control you, you awaken. you become unstoppable.

[Words For You @_Wordsforyou11]

"The man who can walk away from what he desires for the sake of what he must become is a man no one can own."

— Epictetus

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

~ Eckhart Tolle

[Vinland @vinlandwisdom]

“Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live has not been projected onto you but by you, your fear comes to an end.”

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

In deep sleep you are not a self-conscious person, yet you are alive. When you are alive and conscious, but no longer self-conscious, you are not a person any more.

Nisargadatta

[Amoda Maa @AmodaMaa]

Spiritual maturity is learning to stay present when the ego wants to flee — not with force, but with gentleness.