âA 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 feeling 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.” ~Â Albert Einstein
âTravel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. Â The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.â ~Â Paulo Coelho
When you know someone is a true friend:
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“True friends are the ones you feel unbounded with, you can be your complete self around them. Youâll know because you wonât feel judged, manipulated, and it feels genuine. Itâs almost effortless when you stay connected without even trying hard, no matter where you may be. Itâs true what they say, friends will always come and go. The real ones will stay. And the real ones are the people you grow with, the ones who help keep you grounded, who will help you reach your potential, and the ones who arenât afraid to show you your own imperfections to help you become better, and vice versa. Those are the real ones.” ~ Satori, infinitesatori.org
“Not giving a shit about what other people think will liberate you. I donât see the point in impressing people we donât like, with things we donât need, and living a life we donât want. People only do that because everyone else is doing it. And they think itâs the normal thing to do. Well, fuck normality. This is your life, do whatever the hell you want with it, do whatever the hell makes you happy and get rid of the excess baggage.” ~ Satori, infinitesatori.org
“Traveling the world is one of the greatest things you can ever do for yourself. It will shatter all illusions, stereotypes, and notions you have of the world and the people in it. You will unlearn, learn, and relearn things you will never discover through a book, a classroom, or a degree. It will humble you, shake you, wake you up. It will seep into your pores and find its way to your heart, and it will find it fast. The veil over your vision will come off and you will experience things that fringe over magic. And you will never ever be the same again in the best way possible. So do yourself a favor, and just buy that damn plane ticket.” ~ Satori, Infinite Satori
“We search for happiness all our lives, through presidents on a bill, degrees framed on walls, shiny fast cars, beautiful naked bodies, little boxes with little rings, and white picket fences. Perhaps they do make you feel happy, for a little while. Then you feel empty again. Just like a bucket with a hole on the bottom being filled with water. You can fill it with as much water as you can but when the water stop running, and the splashes are gone, and stillness comes, itâs empty again. Genuine happiness isnât a goal and you canât find it through anything that is tangible. Itâs a state of mind that keeps you in the present moment wherein you are happy and grateful for everything in your life no matter what you have, where you are, and who you are with. To acquire this mental state you have to learn how to live in solitude and learn how to love yourself. You have to learn how to let go of all that is tangible and embrace the abundance of love and beauty the world is offering around you. You will find that happiness has been within you all along.” ~ Satori, infinitesatori.org
“Donât find yourself, create yourself. We have the ability to become whoever we want to become, and to materialize the kind of lives we want to live. Thatâs a power that we can cultivate. The person you think you are, the kind of life you have right now, isnât all that there is. You wonât always be this person, you can change, you can be better. You are meant to do great things, create yourself to become that person.” ~ Satori, infinitesatori.org
“The world has so much to teach us if weâre brave enough to explore the unknown and leap into it with open arms.” ~ Satori, High Existence
“Manâs chief purpose⊠is the creation and preservation of values, that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human lifeâŠÂ The individual contribution, the work of any single generation, is infinitesimal; the power and glory belong to human society at large, and are the long result of selection, conservation, sacrifice, creation, and renewal â the outcome of endless brave efforts to conserve values and ideas, and to hand them on to posterity, along with physical life itself. Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back into an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.” ~ Lewis Mumford, Faith for Living