“Everything has an existence separate from ourselves. People, animals, trees, art… everything. So when your interacting with something – it doesn’t matter what it is – you shouldn’t be concentrating on how clearly you see yourself in it. The trick is to recognize the worth of the thing for it’s own sake instead of recognizing it’s worth to you”
From the Book “Someplace to be flying”
Charles De Lint
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”
~Albert Einstein~
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