{"quotes":[{"text":"I am The Dragon And I have come!","author":"Kehinde Sonola","tags":["dragon","dragons","eastern-philosophy","metaphysics","mind-body-spirit","philosophy","spirituality"],"id":14975,"author_id":"Kehinde+Sonola"},{"text":"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.","author":"Lao Tzu","tags":["comedy","eastern-philosophy","philosophy"],"id":46426,"author_id":"Lao+Tzu"},{"text":"When somebody plays music, you listen. You just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. The point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. In exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.","author":"Alan W. Watts","tags":["eastern-philosophy","esoterism","meditation","philosophy"],"id":51946,"author_id":"Alan+W.+Watts"},{"text":"An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.","author":"Fakeer Ishavardas","tags":["atheism","eastern-philosophy","education","enlightenment","god","metaphysical-truth-reality","spirituality-vs-religion","sufi"],"id":59593,"author_id":"Fakeer+Ishavardas"},{"text":"I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.","author":"Tobe Hanson","tags":["advice","anxiety","being-present","being-present","business","business","chinese-philosophy","depression","eastern-philosophy","god","healing","healing-journey","healing","health","health","knowledge","life","life-coach","life-coaching","life-coaching","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","meditation","mind","mind-body-soul","mind-body-spirit","motivation","motivational","pain","peace-of-mind","peak-performance","peak-performance-expert","philosophy","philosophy","quotes","on-stress","self-esteem","self-healing","self-help","self-help","self-improvement","soul","spirituality","stress","success","success","suffering","truth","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":98906,"author_id":"Tobe+Hanson"},{"text":"The man who wishes to know the 'that' which is 'thou' may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by looking inwards into his own particular thou and, by a process of 'dying to self' --- self in reasoning, self in willing, self in feeling --- come at last to knowledge of the self, the kingdom of the self, the kingdom of God that is within. Or else he may begin with the thous existing outside himself, and may try to realize their essential unity with God and, through God, with one another and with his own being. Or, finally (and this is doubtless the best way), he may seek to approach the ultimate That both from within and from without, so that he comes to realize God experimentally as at once the principle of his own thou and of all other thous, animate and inanimate.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["eastern-philosophy","hinduism","perennial-philosophy","spirituality"],"id":100304,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.","author":"Tobe Hanson","tags":["advice","anxiety","being-present","being-present","depression","eastern-philosophy","fitness","healing","healing-journey","healing","health","health","life","life-coach","life-coaching","life-coaching","life-lessons","life","meditation","mind","mind-body-soul","mind-body-spirit","pain","peace-of-mind","peak-performance-expert","philosophy","philosophy","quotes","on-stress","self-healing","self-help","self-help","self-improvement","soul","spirituality","sports-injury","sports","stress","suffering"],"id":137942,"author_id":"Tobe+Hanson"},{"text":"There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying, 'it was not I, it was the weapon?","author":"Mencius","tags":["charity","eastern-philosophy","ethics","moral-philosophy"],"id":148379,"author_id":"Mencius"},{"text":"If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.","author":"Tobe Hanson","tags":["advice","anxiety","anxious","beauty","being-present","being-present","body-building","breathing","breathing-awareness","chinese-philosophy","depressed","depression","depression","eastern-philosophy","exercise","fitness","healing","healing-journey","healing","health","health","knowledge","life","life-coach","life-coaching","life-coaching","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","meditate","meditation","mind","mind-body-soul","mind-body-spirit","motivation","motivational","pain","peace-of-mind","peak-performance","peak-performance-expert","philosophy","philosophy","quotes","self-esteem","self-healing","self-help","self-help","self-improvement","soul","spirituality","sports","sports-injury","sports","success","suffering","truth","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":211212,"author_id":"Tobe+Hanson"},{"text":"As soon as we notice that certain types of event 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the attitude of the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences. The classical Chinese texts did not ask what causes what, but rather what 'likes' to occur with what.","author":"M.L. von Franz","tags":["eastern-philosophy","jung","jungian","man-and-his-symbols","synchronicity"],"id":258506,"author_id":"M.L.+von+Franz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}