"It takes practice to hear your true..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.
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“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”
“Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.”
“It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.”
More on Desire
“I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.”
“Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist. That's not a full joke there! It's filler.”
More on Passion
“The important point is to not just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.”
“If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.”
“The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.”