“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being.”— Ram Dass, twitter.com
“Only one thing is of absolute importance and that is your connectedness with being.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com
“Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.”— Ram Dass, twitter.com
“It is only a small step from the word 'being' to the experience of Being.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com
“The only thing you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being.”— Ram Dass, twitter.com
“Uhhh, I hate it when adults use the term 'sexually active.' What does it even mean? Am I gonna like deactivate some day or is it a permanent state of being?”— Ellen Page, Juno, amazon.com
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is…”— Anthon St. Maarten, orchidrecoverycenter.com
“Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness- machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance, my silver set and my eternal loss.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com