"What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy."

-- Lester Levenson

#Spiritual Quotes #Self Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.”
“You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.”
“To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.”
“When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.”
“I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.”
“Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.”

Source : Song: Telegraph Road
“If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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