the only person you can save is yourself
thetaoofdana:
you can’t save your friends, your family, your partner or strangers. maybe you can save them from a disaster… but not from their own habits and their own patterns. you can encourage, but you can’t save. you can help, but you can’t do it for them. when you think you can save everyone…. no one gets saved. spare yourself and save yourself. everyone else can take care of their journey.
A 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.
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Albert Einstein (via eadrom)
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