“Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.” GivingDreamUniverseEvilForceAliveBuildingGiving UpAwakeGood And EvilPieMudOur DreamsMud Pies Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time you do, you should be using the process of falling asleep as giving up your attention to sense objects, your discursive ruminating thoughts and so on. You should use that as a process of giving up and giving yourself completely to the universe and becoming completely obliterated.” NeedsGivingShouldStatesUseLife IsNightDiesFallUniverseProcessAttentionObjectsLike YouBecomingGiving UpTransitionEvery NightFalling AsleepGiving Yourself Author:Robert Thurman
“Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.” IfsGivingFirstsSometimesWholeFeelingsSeemsMightCertainUniverseRealizingChanceSacrificeSkyFiguresLike YouGiving UpPaintLandscapeQuartersInchesLeafsHolding OnLimiting YourselfHistory Of Love Author:Nicole Krauss
“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.” GivingTryingLooksMayMatterSeemsRememberUniverseStarsDifficultCan DoWonderFeetSucceedGiving UpCuriousMake SenseLook UpJust Give UpDifficult Life Author:Stephen Hawking
“I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.” KnowsGivingBelieveWellsLittlesPersonsSpiritDiesUniverseI BelieveCreationPlanetsGiving UpCenter Of The Universe Author:Fred Rogers
“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.” GivingWritingStoriesPastSpiritualUniverseGrowthLetting GoGiving UpSpiritual GrowthYour Past Author:Marianne Williamson