Quotes

"Whatever my defects or imperfections, I accept myself unreservedly and completely"

Request: It's from Nathaniel Branden's book "Six Pillars of Self Esteem". He advises one to look in the mirror and say this to themselves very slowly in order to improve self esteem.

"Peace is happiness at rest, happiness is peace in motion"

Request: Rupert Spira saying.

"At home, you get to know the world, by traveling, yourself..."

"...because at home the weight falls on you, on the road it falls on the world, and it always remains unknown what you are looking at" --Béla Hamvas. Priority request.

"the female body is polluted; it is not a fit vessel for the Dharma"

Request: A quote from the Lotus Sutra (cal. 780 TvF), chapter XII.

a Jeff Foster quote on change

"Great healing begins when we align with the universe exactly as it is, yet hold in our hearts the way we know it can be, and we simply stop comparing the two." Priority request.

"Release the Heaven in your heart"

Request: My grandpa's favorite saying. Never met him because he passed away in a car crash right before I was born.

"The size of the man is the size of his problems"

Similar to and calibrating the same: “You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.” ― Adlai E. Stevenson

“Not all who wander are lost”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Riddle of Strider, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

"You will never make your life perfect...

...only you will realize that it is already perfect."

"I'm here for a good time not a long time"

Commonly seen on Tinder bios (as well as other dating apps) to denote that the user is not looking for anything serious (I.e. a relationship). Instead, they are looking for a casual fling/hook up/just sex -- urbandictionary

"In a real marriage, you don't really marry each other. You marry God together."

Rupert Spira teaching about relationships. Video short included.

"any attention is good attention, even if it’s bad attention”

Full quote: “In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it’s bad attention.” -- Robert Greene

"It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say"

Request: Famous quote from a John Meyer song

Gandhi on non-violence during WWII

Unexpectedly unrealistic and tone-deaf advice from an enlightened being. 185 is the level of "false reality."

"Q: What prayers are useful?"

Excerpt from "The Eye of the I"