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![Albert Camus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1686463588i/957894._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
![Erich Fromm](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1644332218i/8788._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”
― The Art of Being
― The Art of Being
![Charlotte Eriksson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615058742i/7056690._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
― You're Doing Just Fine
![Hermann Hesse](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1499981916i/1113469._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
![Parker J. Palmer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415691607i/55813._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
― Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
― Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
![Pearl S. Buck](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583266659i/704._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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![Osho](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1540742202i/2856822._UY200_CR53,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.”
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“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT
I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?
I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?
I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![John Williams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519832171i/51229._UY200_CR47,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
![Margery Williams Bianco](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206640729i/83846._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
― The Velveteen Rabbit
![Milan Kundera](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588857088i/6343._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Immortality
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Immortality
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and that special quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and that builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance. ("The unbearable heaviness of being”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Many like to suffer, and for some, suffering can be a kind of artistic expression that challenges people and defies them with their limits, and, so, pain can be a shot to recognize the architecture and the workings of their being. (“ Rooting, hogging or... dying”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Be it as it may, if we are not ready to break new ground and get to grips with the recurrent challenges of our daily reality, we will never, ever be able to recognize the uncharted and colorful pictures on the canvas of our life, nor sense the pounding rhythm in the core of our being.”
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![Shannon Hale](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299093233i/49177._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped.
"You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.”
― The Goose Girl
"You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.”
― The Goose Girl
![H Raven Rose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612805429i/6542410._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.”
― Shadow Selves
― Shadow Selves
![Clarice Lispector](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1513703541i/86098._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
![John Stuart Mill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1542512885i/57651._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .”
― An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
― An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
![Alberto Caeiro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389996766i/322304._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.
I only regret not having loved you.
Put your hands in mine
And let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.”
― O Pastor Amoroso
I only regret not having loved you.
Put your hands in mine
And let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.”
― O Pastor Amoroso
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)”
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“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Danail Hristov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1627251617i/7200877._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.”
― The End of the Jesus Era
― The End of the Jesus Era
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