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The most important thing that you could ever give the world is yourself. That is why it is very important that you care for that person – to discover her, to tap her potentials, and to celebrate her for being the unique and wonderful person that she truly is.
People go wrong when they think about great things,and then forget about love. – itakeoffthemask.com
It isn’t enough that a man should live
For a man must love;
It isn’t enough that a man should love
For a man should love fully
and be able to bear
both the pain
and the highest joys
of his love.
He must know how to treasure that love,
how to protect it
with all its might,
against the world
that often gets jealous
of those
who have found true love.
Protect it
from the innermost chambers
of your heart
and let not your soul depart
without it.
It is your key
to eternity.
The Knowledge of the World
Don’t take in more knowledge than you can digest. Don’t take in such a burdensome quantity as to disturb the peace of your soul.
There is much useful knowledge we could benefit from. Knowledge that helps us do our jobs better, knowledge that helps make this world a better place.
But information overload has sneaked in suddenly into our lives, and we failed to recognize it when it arrived. We have consumed more than we could take in. Indeed, we became too knowledgeable to be truly beautiful.
Tons of books now tell us a thousand things we should do, a thousand reasons why we should do them, and a thousand more on how to do all of those things.
Many times, it is not anymore how much we know. It all redounds to who we are and how connected we are to the things that matter most to us.
Never memorize what you can look up in books. – Albert Einstein
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Acceptance is an important ingredient in the recipe of SURRENDER. To ACCEPT what is, what has been, what could be. To accept one’s tears and one’s cross. To accept one’s joys without the guilt of feeling that one does not deserve the treasure she has found.
Much of our suffering comes from non-acceptance. Much of our energy is wasted resisting what already is.
Acceptance however, does not mean accepting evil, of not giving a fight to do what’s right. But it means fighting in another way, a fight that does not focus on resisting evil, but that which focuses on surrendering to attain what is good.
Through acceptance, we defeat our denials. We accept the darkness for what it really is. But we remain unafraid, ,knowing that darkness cannot prevail over the light. When we are of the light, no darkness can defeat us – ever!