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Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes [Book]

    Solitude by Robert Kull

    By: Robert Kull

    From this Book: 24 Quotes

    Book Overview:  Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia’s coastal wilderness with equipment and supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he’d been seeking all his life. With only a cat and his thoughts as companions, he wrestled with inner storms while the wild forces of nature raged around him. The physical challenges were immense, but the struggles of mind and spirit pushed him even further.

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    1. 19 Quotes on Solitude from A Guy Who Spent A Year Alone in the Wilderness

      “I spend so much time worrying about whether people will like and respect me in the years ahead, but there is nothing I can do to make that happen.  I can only work on liking and respecting myself and others, look for Spirit in each of us, and learn to accept inevitable frustration, fear, and anger without blaming myself or the external world.  My task is to stay centered, not manipulate others to make me feel ok.” ~ Robert Kull, Solitude

        “Gaining enlightenment is an accident.  Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone.” ~ Zen Saying, via Solitude

          “Joy comes from living fully in the here and now, no matter what the circumstance.  To live like that I must give up wanting things to be different.  The hardest is to give up wanting things to be different.” ~ Robert Kull, Solitude

            “Deep peace and harmony seem to arise when I surrender to the flow of the world, not when I’m analyzing it or staying busy to shut it out.” ~ Robert Kull, Solitude

              “I feel I somehow own myself and have the right to control what I do and feel and what happens to me.  From there it follows that the world is mine to do with as I wish.  But I didn’t make me, nor do I own me or the world.  I’m just part of the flow of existence.” ~ Robert Kull, Solitude

                “A man is really a mature man when he has come to this conclusion: ‘If death is happening to everybody else, then I cannot be an exception.’ Once this conclusion sinks deep into your heart, your life can never be the same again.  You cannot remain attached to life in the old way.  If it is going to be taken away, what is the point of being so possessive?  If it is going to disappear one day, why cling and suffer? If life is not going to remain forever, then why be in such misery, anguish, worry?” ~ Osho, The Art of Living and Dying

                  “Life is spread out over a long time – seventy years, one hundred years.  Death is intense because it is not spread out – it is in a single moment.  Life has to pass one hundred years or seventy years, it cannot be so intense.  Death comes in a single moment; it comes whole, not fragmentary.  It will be so intense you cannot know anything more intense.  But if you are afraid, if before death comes you have escaped, if you have become unconscious because of the fear, you have missed one of the golden opportunities, the golden gate.  If your whole life you have been accepting things, when death comes, patiently, passively you will accept and enter into it without any effort to escape.  If you can enter death passively, silently, without any effort, death disappears.” ~ Osho, The Art of Living and Dying

                    “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Zen Poetry

                      “To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find Nirvana.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki

                        “Only he who has the courage to write the word ‘end’ can find the strength to write the word ‘beginning.'” ~ Zen Proverb

                        The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari [Book]

                          The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

                          By: Robin S. Sharma

                          From this Book:  45 Quotes

                          Book Overview: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by motivational speaker and author Robin Sharma is an inspiring tale that provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life, and the subsequent wisdom that he gains on a life-changing odyssey that enables him to create a life of passion, purpose and peace.

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                            “A strong body cannot exist without a strong mind.  A flexible body cannot exist without a flexible mind.  A relaxed body cannot exist without a relaxed mind.” ~ Jesse Enkamp, Karate by Jesse

                              “If at all possible, commune with nature daily.  A quick walk through the woods or even a few minutes spent cultivating your tomato garden in the backyard will reconnect you to the wellspring of calm that may now be dormant within you.  Being with nature also allows you to tune in to the infinite wisdom of your highest self.  This self-knowledge will move you into the uncharted dimensions of your personal power.  Never forget this.” ~ Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari