"When your attention shifts to the present moment, that is readiness. It is as though you are waking from a dream—a dream consisting of thoughts, the past, and the future. So clear, so simple. There is absolutely no room in it for creating problems. Only the present moment, as such." Eckhart Tolle
And do pay attention," he resumed the interrupted conversation, "every culture is precisely a paradoxical unity of things that, at first glance, have nothing to do with one another. There are parallels, of course—a wall encircling an ancient city and a round coin, or the rapid crossing of enormous distances with the help of trains, howitzers, and the telegraph. And so on. But that is not the main point, of course; rather, it is that each time an indivisible unity manifests itself, a principle that cannot itself be formulated despite its extreme simplicity.
V. Pelevin, "The Crystal World"
"Separation has a lofty meaning
No matter how long we love, be it one day or a century,
Love is a dream, and a dream is but a moment...
And sooner or later comes awakening,
And a person must finally wake up..."
"Love is when there is nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be afraid of, you understand? When you will not be let down or betrayed. When you are believed in."
"To love is not to look at each other; to love is to look together in the same direction."
"The love of a beautiful woman is, in fact, always an act of condescension. Because it is simply impossible to be worthy of such love." V. Pelevin, "Chapaev and Emptiness"
"In any case, the guest was nobly informal, though with restrained dignity; even at first he addressed the prince with a certain air of condescension—precisely as some proud but unjustly offended people are sometimes nobly informal."
"Dear ones, guard this love of yours above all, for the ability to love, or, better yet, the gift of love, is the key to everything. Love is the foundation of all achievements, of all talents; a loving heart is the guarantee of all possibilities. Even suffering in love contributes to the purification and refinement of our feelings. Love takes everything, but it also gives everything. Truly, love embraces the entire Universe; therefore, fear nothing, for even the most difficult burden can be endured, lived through, and transformed by love into something most beautiful. Love is, after all, the foundation and greatest lever of Creation. All worlds are conceived through cosmic love; everything is sustained by love alone. Remembering this fundamental universal law, let us carefully, with complete dedication, develop within ourselves this greatest gift, whose guardian is our heart."
"And where is love? Love that is selfless, devoted, expecting no reward? The kind of love it is said of—"strong as death"? You understand, such love, for which accomplishing any feat, giving one's life, or enduring suffering is not a burden at all, but pure joy." A. Kuprin, "The Garnet Bracelet"
"If you catch a bird, don't keep it in a cage; don't make it want to fly away but be unable to. Instead, make it so that it can fly away, but does not want to!" Osho
"Happiness does not love everyone,
Not everyone was born for crowns.
Blessed is the one who knows the delight
Of lofty thoughts and verse."
A. S. Pushkin
"— Who are you reading to? Who, I ask, are you reading to?
— No one. Myself.
— Then why out loud?
— Well, they're poems..."
"The Dawns Here Are Quiet", Boris Vasilyev
"There is no better way to refresh the mind than reading the ancient classics; just pick one of them up, even for half an hour, and you immediately feel refreshed, relieved and cleansed, uplifted and strengthened—as if you had refreshed yourself by bathing in a pure spring." A. Schopenhauer
«Man is endowed with reason and a soul, where crystal-clear springs ripple, fairy-tale flowers bloom, and magical birds sing. Or rather, they could ripple, bloom, and sing. But no. Man fills this pure spring with tons of rubbish: empty resentments, anger over nothing, meaningless fear…»
Oleg Roy
"Such is life: one person twists and turns among the thorns without being pricked; another carefully watches where to place his feet, yet still stumbles upon thorns in the middle of the best road and returns home scraped raw to the point of unconsciousness."
Denis Diderot.
"Miracles happen where people believe in them, and the more they believe, the more often they occur."
