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“Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.”

Quote by Mark Nepo

Book:The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be

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The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be

This book explores the concept of lifelong learning and self-improvement, emphasizing the importance of consistent effort and introspection in achieving one's true potential. more

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Mark Nepo is an American poet, writer, and speaker known for his profound spiritual insights and unique perspectives on life. His work blends poetry, philosophy, and psychology, aiming to help readers explore the meaning of life and the inner peace within. more

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“Try not to be concerned with it. It's a spiritual thing. Don't look for the results, don't live in the payoff. Live in the moment which is a spiritual principle. Live in the moment and let the results take care of themselves. It's in the hands of God. The rest is all ego. And I have learned, over the years, it's got nothing to do with me. As my life is none of my business.”

Trying Years Looks Moments Hands Care Spiritual Life Is Results Principles Ego Concerned Take Care I Have Learned Live In The Moment Hands Of God Payoff

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.”

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“When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.”

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“When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.”

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“To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.”

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“Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.”

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Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.”

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Author:Edgar Friedenberg

“Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”

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Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals