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The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

— Swami Brahmananda, The Eternal Companion (1944)
1d ago

We must not inquire too curiously into the price paid for the stability of the universe. The universe has always exacted a heavy price for its harmony.

3d ago
themarginalian.org
Let Your Heart Be Broken

The miracle is that we rise again out of suffering… The miracle is that we create ourselves anew.

1mo ago

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Yet one cannot stop from living in the world. This is the paradox of consciousness itself—that we become most fully alive precisely through our capacity to suffer.

1mo ago

The poet only asks to get his head into the world, but the world always strikes a poet down. It may be very hard in the world to live with the poet; but imagine how hard it must be to live with the poet in oneself and to be bound by him in chains.

2mo ago
honest-broker.com
The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'

Before the electrodes were attached to his head he'd lost everything tangible: money, property, children; even his rights as a citizen had been taken away from him by order of the court…. What's left now is just fragments: debris, scattered notes, which can be pieced together but which leave huge areas unexplained.

3mo ago
honest-broker.com
The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'

Before the electrodes were attached to his head he'd lost everything tangible: money, property, children; even his rights as a citizen had been taken away from him by order of the court…. I will never know all that was in his head at that time, nor will anyone else. What's left now is just fragments: debris, scattered notes, which can be pieced together but which leave huge areas unexplained.

3mo ago

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