Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
ANAIS NINLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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