☉ WORDS OF WISDOM ☉

'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heaven, 'first you have to die.'
- The Satanis Verses by Salman Rushdie

When ego is lost, limit is lost.

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.
- Steve Maraboli

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.
- Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.
- Henry Holmes Smith

I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
—  Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” 
—  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.” 
—  Susan S. Taylor