"I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head."

-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Fire Quotes #Self Quotes #Secret Quotes

“The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.”
“If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.”
“...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.”
“No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.”

Source : Michael Cadnum (2015). “Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun”, p.13, Open Road Media
“What I learned from comparisons and jealousies is that they point to where you haven't filled your cup or owned your gifts. They point to where you are not yet 100% you. We know that when you are fully engaged in doing what you're doing and your heart and creative spirit are involved, you couldn't care less what anybody else is doing.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.”
“Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.”
“We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision”

Source : Sarah Weddington (2013). “A Question of Choice: Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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