Ingmar Bergman
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Thích Nhất Hạnh (via purplebuddhaproject)
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
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Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (via purplebuddhaproject)
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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Hermann Hesse (via purplebuddhaproject)
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.
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(via purplebuddhaproject)