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Dancing Stories
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
— Terence McKenna
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The best meditation is to simply keep quiet. Don’t follow any thought and don’t activate the mind. This is true meditation.
~Papaji
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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
— Toni Morrison — The Bluest Eye
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“Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, “I did it before, so I can do it again.”
— Idowu Koyenikan
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“This, I have consistently experienced in Life — that no matter how grave the circumstances are, it is not over, to use a cricketing term, until the last ball is bowled! So, even if it seems like a dead-end, a no-go situation, celebrate being alive. It may be dark all around you, there may be no light…