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“Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.”

Life Past Balance Future Present Move Behind Strike Jerked

Author:Richmond Akhigbe

“Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking in, sitting in the objective chair, as a witness. As opposed to being so entangled in my feelings, that they become a noose around my neck.”

Wise Words Jaeda Dewalt Being Objective Regulating Feelings Witnessing Emotions

Author:Jaeda DeWalt

“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.”

Science Theory Posthumanism

Book:How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Source: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

“temporarily suspending individuality to focus on group identity is healthy”

Community Identity Equality Selfishness Alignment Ethical Living Being Objective

Book:White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Source: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“I want to urge you to consider your own limitations not as obstacles but as opportunities for God to show his limitless power and unlimited love.”

Gods Power Personal Limitations

Book:He's Been Faithful

Source: He's Been Faithful

“Meetings constitute the charm of travelling. Who does not know the joy of coming, five hundred leagues from one's native land, upon a Parisian, a college friend, or a neighbour in the country? Who has not spent a night, unable to sleep, in the little jingling stage-coach of countries where steam is still unknown, beside a strange young woman, half seen by the gleam of the lantern when she clambered into the carriage at the door of a white house in a little town?”

Train Travelling A Humble Drama Stage Coach

Book:88 More Stories

Source: 88 More Stories

“It is said that 70,000 veils separate the human being from Perfect Freedom. These veils are not evil, below us or filthy. They are complexes that need to be dissolved, beliefs that need changing and doorways to existential core issues. God has said, 'There are seventy thousand veils between you and Me, but there are no veils between Me and you.' This is why we so greatly stress the importance of the Murid involving him or her self in some kind of psychological and body work.”

Psychology Spirituality 70 000 Veils Perfect Freedom

Book:The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Freud tanısaydı severdi beni." Sense bana boş boş bakmış, mutfak tezgahının yanlış eğilimi yüzünden ocak tarafında, su ısıtıcısının arkasında biriken suyu, süngerle almaya devam etmiştin.”

Book:Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz

Source: Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz

“Maggie was surprised to find her heart flipping. At 70 you think that’s all over. You’re too creaky, too selfish, too afraid of infirmity, too focused on staving off dependency, too focused on your unreliable knees and your wobbles on the stairs. Too farty.”

Elderly 70 Bloomer

Book:Bloomer

Source: Bloomer

“There were about twenty other Americans in there, sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall, staring into the flames-thinking whatever there was to think, which was zero.”

Author:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jr.