All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
— Kabir
Spectacular Eat Love Pray quotations
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am.
I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying;
the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
God dwells within you, as you.
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become.
You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
The resting place of the mind is the heart.
The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
