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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, and aphorist, in The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

For example, consider weighing the annoyance associated with an opportunity to make money against the bliss of refusing the opportunity and the money. You're wealthy if you can afford to go with the blissful option.

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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, and aphorist, in The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

#nassim nicholas taleb #quotes #procrastination

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001), English author, humourist, and screenwriter, in The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

#douglas adams #quotes #procrastination

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If it’s in front of you, it’s yours. If it’s in front of you it’s not by chance, it’s not a mistake. It’s not like you should turn away and go this way, go that way. Deal with what’s in front of you, and mostly by dealing with it accept it as it is; realize that it’s a Divine space that’s right in front of you. It’s Sacred Space, open to it and love it even if you can’t stand it and hate it. You know, the part that hates and has drama with life and the stuff that’s in front of you, that’s what spiritual life works to eradicate; the personal egoistic self that’s going “ah it’s not for me, that’s not the way I wanted it, it should be this way”—that’s got to go out of the equation, because as long as that’s in the equation you’re useless to everyone around you.

— Bruce Joel Rubin, 2024-04-28, NY, YouTube (14:37)

#bruce joel rubin #spiritual quotes #acceptance

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I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.

Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950), Abide as the Self, by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)

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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950), Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, edited by David Godman (1989)

#ramana maharshi #spiritual quotes #self-enquiry

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He told me that facts gave birth to, and were the absolute ground of, principles; to which I said, that unless he had a principle of selection, he would not have taken notice of those facts upon which he grounded his principle. You must have a lantern in your hand to give light, otherwise all the materials in the world are useless, for you cannot find them; and if you could, you could not arrange them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, remarked on 1830.09.21, Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T. Coleridge (1835), by Henry N. Coleridge

#samuel taylor coleridge #quotes #principles

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake—Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, Anima Poetæ: From The Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

#samuel taylor coleridge #spiritual quotes #dreaming

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Epitaph Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he— Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C! That he, who many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life, may here find life in death.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, Epitaph, written for himself (1833)

#samuel taylor coleridge #poetry #mortality #immortality

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The progression from avyakta to manifold prakriti.

Rectangular log map-scheme of the Observable Universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi

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But the Magician knows that the pure Will of every man and every woman is already in perfect harmony with the divine Will; in fact, they are one and the same.

Lon Milo DuQuette, The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema (1994)

#lon milo duquette #aleister crowley #thelema #pure will #mahāvākya #i am that #affirmations #spiritual quotes

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947), British occultist, mystic, poet, and social provocateur, in The Book of Lies (1913)

#aleister crowley #quotes #skepticism

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Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, in Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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[Incidentally, the four questions for identifying and questioning stressful thoughts are: (1) Is it true? (2) Can you absolutely know that it’s true? (3) How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? (4) Who would you be without the thought?]

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

Byron Katie, Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

#byron katie #quotes

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What youth found and must find outside, the man of life’s afternoon must find within himself.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 7

#carl jung #spiritual quotes #spiritual journey

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Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), Book of Job (1954)

#carl jung #spiritual quotes #soul