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“If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

tags: evolving, growing, learning, seeing, spirituality

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“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: alive, aliveness, approval, asking-questions, awake, awaken, awakened, awakening, be, becoming, being, birth, bliss, born, caring, change-the-world, changing-the-world, comfortable-with-yourself, conscious, consciousness, ego, egoism, egoismo, egotism, enlightenment, evolution, evolving, freedom-of-thought, growing, growth, immaterial, life, light, loving-yourself, material, materialism, peace, poem, poetry, reborn, reflection, reflections-on-life, self-awareness, self-love, self-reflection, state-of-being, superficial, superficial-culture, suzy-kassem, think, thinking, thought, thoughts-on-life, to-be, transform, transformation, what-if, what-is, what-was, wisdom, wise, world, world-citizen, world-peace

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“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness

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“There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more suprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.”
― Gail Godwin, The Finishing School

tags: creativity, development

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“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

tags: evolving, life, mindfulness, peace

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