Loneliness is a prerequisite
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
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Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do … Read more
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability. Gail Jones
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one’s own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know. Gabrielle Giffords
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity. G. I. Gurdjieff
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being…It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it. G. I. Gurdjieff
What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties. G. Campbell Morgan
I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I’m in at the time. G-Eazy
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Ezra Taft Benson
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound