Quotes/External Wisdom

I am, therefor I think. -Eckhart Tolle === the next few entries are inspired by or paraphrased from Eckhart Tolle's 'The Power of Now' thanks, Toad, for the reminder. have a good trip to your next lifetime.

seek joy, not pleasure pleasure comes from external sources joy from within suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the now

break the addiction to anything without this is not to say you should not interact but only feed on that which you create within pain can only feed on pain; pain cannot feed on joy create joy by not creating pain, not feeding on pleasure

to complain is always non-acceptance of what is. change, leave, or accept the situation. all else is madness.

"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterday." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not fear mistakes - there are none" -Miles Davis

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." -Henry Ford

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Gustav Jung (on that note, I highly recommend the movie 'Waking Life')

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -Carl Gustav Jung

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” -Ben Sweetland