"Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are."

-- Ajahn Sumedho

#Thinking Quotes

“Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.”
“To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.”

Source : Christ Stopped at Eboli ch. 1 (1945)
“When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.”
“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”
“Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.”
“One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.”
“You're only as strong as your weakest member; you're only as positive as your most negative friend”

Source : Source: gothamist.com
“Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.”

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