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Getting Off The Path
People do things to survive and then after they survive they can’t live with what they’ve done.
— Adam Johnson
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Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
― Hermann Hesse
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To remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be.
From Habi Ba, Native American DNA
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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The hero-martyrs taught us that there are things more important than survival, that if you commit yourself to the truth and you get destroyed, that is preferable to selling yourself out “just to survive.”
