"To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Struggle Quotes #Way Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.”
“All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.
“After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.”
“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
“But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".”

Source : Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.23, SUNY Press
“What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?”
“But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.”
“You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.”

Source : "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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