“Because sometimes, the breakdown is the gateway. To presence. To Connection. To the kind of joy you can't plan for".”
Source: Just Ask Your Self
“If there are a few good people in the world, let them be, but may all others remain natural. Otherwise, work can’t go on, nor can the soul survive.”
Source: Gora
“There's no difficulty in choosing vice in abundance: the road is smooth and it's hardly any distance to where it lives. But the gods have put sweat in the way of goodness, and a long, rough, steep road.”
Source: Republic
“Eye contact is not a harbinger of decency.”
Source: [Don't] Call Me Crazy
“Goodness can be no single leader. No solitary person.
Goodness is friends who stick by you, even when they fear you’re lost. It’s mothers you fight for their daughters. It’s believing in something better—and taking action to make it reality. It’s love, untainted and pure.”
Source: Steelstriker
“When people are good the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes through people who are not good or who have been forgotten. Perhaps Christianity was good and the world liked it, so now it is going away and the immortals are beginning to awake.”
Source: The Table of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi
“These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth people; people whom i should count myself fortunate to know”
Source: The Secret History
“I am more than the moments that locked my essence in trauma. Using every ounce of pain, never forgetting my worth, moving away from the drama.”
Source: My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth
“Dear God,
Allow me to be fascinated with this wonderful world you created. May I wake each day with a sense of purpose, and a clear understanding that the day belongs to me. Please help me send into the world goodness, and compassion for those in need. Set me on a course of kindness in any troubled moments. Let me find clarity in my time of doubt. In Jesus name, amen.”
“As a practitioner, you can create holiness. Holiness cannot be bestowed on us by someone else. ... We are a saint when we can produce holiness.”
Source: Enjoying the Ultimate: Commentary on the Nirvana Chapter of the Chinese Dharmapada