• “Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you,and of all acts for which you must atone.”

― Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

• “This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.”

― Dante Alighieri

• “Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed to form the angelic butterfly, that goes to judgment, leaving all defence behind?

Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?” ― Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

“Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.” ― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.” ― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,

Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of people. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,

But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Love my heart longs day and night for the meeting with you -for the meeting that is all-devouring death Sweep me away like a storm; take everything i have; break open my sleep and plunder my dreams. Rob me of my world In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit, let us become one in beauty

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