
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can’t see how it is.”
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Once you see the way it is and just see it fully, you won’t really wish to change it.
You may want to understand it, but you won’t want to change it.
It’s just the horrible beauty of suffering.
– Ram Dass

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly no longer the ego but just an old, conditioned mind pattern.
Ego implies unawareness.
Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
Eckhart Tolle

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” —William Faulkner