“No book can teach what can be learned only in childhood. “
Author: Alinspires
The cultivation of detachment
There is only attachment; there is no such thing as detachment. The mind invents detachment as a reaction to the pain of attachment. When you react to attachment by becoming “detached,” you are attached to something else. So that whole process is one of attachment. You are attached to your wife or your husband, to your children, to ideas, to tradition, to authority, and so on; and your reaction to that attachment is detachment. The cultivation of detachment is the outcome of sorrow, pain. You want to escape from the pain of attachment, and your escape is to find something to which you think you can be attached. So there is only attachment, and it is a stupid mind that cultivates detachment. All the books say, “Be detached,” but what is the truth of the matter? If you observe your own mind, you will see an extraordinary thing—that through cultivating detachment, your mind is becoming attached to something else.
-J. Krishnamurti
If You Forget Me
“Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine. ”
Pablo Neruda
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Respect
“Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”
It’s all in your head
“The Mountains we climb are mountains of the mind.”
MAD
“Those who dance are considered mad by those who cannot hear the music.”
On Learning
“Life is a process not a thing. And, processes go well if there are many ways to influence them. We need more ways to do what we want than the one we know – even if it is a good one in itself.”
Learning
“If nothing ever repeats itself, how could we learn?”
Words
“Words are more to hide our intentions than to express them.”
Courage
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive
-Jordan Peterson