"When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?"

-- Adyashanti

#Eye Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Important Quotes

“Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.”

Source : Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.41, Sophia Institute Press
“If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.”

Source : Edna Buchanan (2003). “The Ice Maiden”, Center Point Pub
“Life is not fair and people are not equal.”

Source : "No Surrender: My Thirty-year War". Book by Hiroo Onoda, www.japantimes.co.jp. 1974.
“There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye”

Source : Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.92, Routledge
“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.”
“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press
“There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).”

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