"Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural."

-- Tim Johnson

#Growth Quotes #Natural Quotes

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”
“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.”
“To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.”
“The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.”
“Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.”
“You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?”
“What do you think you're doing?”
“Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.”

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