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“before speaking, notice what motivates your words.”

Book:Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

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Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

This book explores the core teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, offering practical steps for achieving enlightenment. It aims to bridge the gap between traditional Buddhist wisdom and contemporary Western thought. more

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Surya Das

Surya Das is a renowned poet, born in 1950. His poetry has been widely appreciated for its profound emotions and unique style. more

“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”

Thinking Trying Hard Used Hurt Minutes Concerned Criticism Mark Wounds Endless Cheer Publicity Claws Cheer You Up

Author:Ava Gardner

“A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.”

Heart House Wealth Secret Silence Imagine Flow Stranger Bowls Secluded

Author:Rumi

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

World Secret Lovers Violent Transactions Secret Places Rumi Poetry

Author:Rumi

“He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.”

Felt Fire Feet Woods Breathing Fifty Dragons Wands

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.”

Book Hair Breaths Soundtracks

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.”

Men Moments Certain Hate Standards Setting Settings Vain Decent High Standards Dostoyevsky Decent Man Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes From The Underground

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.”

Way Needs Feels Kind Feelings Able Film Actors Goes On Resources Instruments Refuse Invites Spectrum Medication Film Actors

Author:Nicolas Cage

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