Listen to Them

These pains you feel
are messengers.
Listen to them.

Rumi

Mediocrity

Some men are born mediocre,
some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity
thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

The Person We Have Become

It isn't so much we want to
leave the person we're with,
as we want to leave the person
we have become.

Esther Perel

Not What We Are

Suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body,
a signal that something needs attending to,
a message that we have mistaken our Self
for a cluster of thoughts and feelings.
In other words, suffering is not here to thwart us;
it is not a punishment. On the contrary, it is here
to help us. It is a wake-up call.

To begin with, it is a gentle call, but in time
it gets more and more severe. Irrespective of
its intensity, the wake-up call is always saying
the same thing: we have mistaken ourselves
for a cluster of thoughts and feelings; we have
overlooked or forgotten who we truly are.

The separate self is not what we are.

Rupert Spira

A Breeze Going By

There's a breeze going by, but
it doesn't determine the weather.

Anonymous

Everything I've Got

You know I'd give you everything I've got
for a little peace of mind.

The Beatles from "I'm So Tired"

Absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent

Cosmic Love is
absolutely ruthless
and highly indifferent:
it teaches its lessons
whether you like/dislike
them or not.

John C. Lilly