Witch Of Portobello Quotes

You are what you believe yourself to be.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Love simply is.

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...

You are what you believe yourself to be

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

We women, when we’re searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes. The Virgin (and I’m not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone. The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, surrender and suffering. The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return. Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

I have learned to suffer in silence.

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

نثق ثقة عمياء بمن يرشدنا ، معتقدين أن مدى معرفتهم يفوق معرفتنا

Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap.

Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use).

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

إن وقتنا على هذه الأرض مقدس ، وعلينا الاحتفاء بكل لحظة

في الفرح عدوى ، تمامًا كالحماسة والحب ، أو الحزن أو الاكتئاب أو الكراهية

An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

And although you have mastered the words, you haven't yet mastered the blank spaces.

Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.

The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything.

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find all too hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. The Tradition is linked to our encounter with the forces of life and not with the people who bring this about. But we are weak: we ask the Mother to send us guides, and all she sends are signs to the road we need to follow. Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! An encounter with superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others. Our time on earth is sacred and we should celebrate every moment.

أن الوحدة تزداد شدّة عندما نحاول الوقوف أمامها وجهًا لوجه ، لكنها تضعف عندما نتجاهلها ببساطة

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

I don't see why I should bother to look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees!

Charisma -- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves

أحيانا يرمي بنا الحب إلى الهاوية

كلّ منا يحمل في داخله شيئًا مجهولًا . لكنه، عندما يطفو إلى السطح ، يكون قادرًا على اجتراح المعجزات

ما المعلم ؟ سأخبرك : هو ليس من يعلّم أمرًا ، بل من يُلهم تلميذه أو تلميذته لتقديم أفضل مالديهما لاكتشاف ما سبقت معرفتهما له

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is―love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia―love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

الحب الحقيقي مزيج من الانتشاء و الغُصّة

We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have much more interesting life.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

Living as human being and as a divinity. moving from tension into relaxation, from relaxation into trance, from trance into a more intense contact with other people. from that contact back into tension and so on, Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.

waktu kita di bumi ini sakral adanya, dan kita seharusnya merayakan setiap detiknya

إذا لم أشعر بحياة تنمو داخلي ، فلن أتمكنّ من تقبّل الحياة خارجي

...in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

Anyone who's loved has more love to give.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

Train your eyes: they were made to see more than you think.

Changes only happen when we go totally against everything we're used to doing.

What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?

Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will be changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

‎Mutluluğun aşk olduğunu söylüyorlar.oysa aşk mutluluk getirmez, hiçbir zaman da getirmemiştir. Tam tersine, sürekli bir kaygı durumudur aşk, bir savaş meydanıdır; kendi kendimize sürekli olarak acaba doğru mu yapıyorum diye sorduğumuz uykusuz gecelerdir.

Reprogram yourself every minute of each day with thoughts that make you grow. When you're feeling irritated or confused, try to laugh at yourself. Laugh out loud at this woman tormented by doubts and anxieties, convinced that her problems are the most important thing in the world.

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

My soul will dance with Athena's soul; I'll be with her while I sleep; I'll wake up sweating and go into the kitchen for a glass of water. I'll understand that in order to combat ghosts you must use weapons that form no part of reality. Then, following the advice of my grandmother, I'll place an open pair of scissors on my bedside table to snip off the end of the dream. The next day, I'll look at the scissors with a touch of regret, but I must adapt to living in the world again or risk going mad.

Justkui nõudepesemine või rinnahoidja kandmine või see, et keegi mulle uksi avab ja sulgeb – justukui alandaks see mind kui naist. Tegelikult ma kaifin, kui mees mulle ukse lahti teeb, etiketi järgi tähendab see:“Tal on vaja, et ma teda aitan, sest ta on nõrk.“ Kuid minu jaoks:“Mind koheldakse kui jumalannat, ma olen kuninganna.

I know that God is putting me through the fire of afflictions. I've accepted the blows that life has dealt me, and sometimes I feel as cold and indifferent as the water that inflicts such pain on the steel. But my one prayer is this: 'Please, God, my Mother, don't give up until I've taken on the shape that you wish for me. Do this by whatever means you think best, for as long as you like but never ever throw me on the scrap heap of souls.

The established religions no longer ask fundamental questions about our identity and our reason for living. Instead, they concentrate purely on a series of dogmas and rules concerned only with fitting in with a particular social and political organization. People in search of real spirituality are, therefore, setting off in new directions, and that inevitably means a return to the past and to primitive religions, before those religions were contaminated by the structures of power.

Niko ne pali svetiljku da bi je sakrio iza vrata: svrha svetlosti je da osvetli prostor oko sebe, da otvori oči, da pokaže lepote i krasote u svojoj okolini. Niko ne prinosi na žrtvu ono najdragocenije što ima: ljubav. Niko ne prepušta svoje snove u ruke onima koji mogu da ih unište. Svako ko slučajno otkrije u sebi neki dar i usudi se da govori o svojim sposobnostima, počinje da pobuđuje podozrenje. Ako postoji neka uteha u tragediji gubitka osobe koju smo toliko silno voleli, to je ona uvek neophodna nada da je možda i bolje što se tako dogodilo. ... nalazim se na bojnom polju otkako sam se rodila, a još sam živa i ne treba mi niko da me štiti. Potpuno se prepustiti ljubavi, bila ona božanska ili ljudska, znači odreći se svega - uključujući i vlastitu dobrobit, ili sposobnost donošenja odluka. Znači voleti u najdubljem smislu te reči. U suštini, mi i ne želimo da budemo spaseni na način koji je Bog izabrao da nas iskupi, želimo da očuvamo potpunu kontrolu nad svakim korakom, da imamo punu svest o svojim odlukama, da budemo kadri da izaberemo predmet svoje odanosti. S ljubavlju nije tako - ona dođe, nastani se u nama, i počinje da upravlja svime. Samo vrlo snažne duše pristaju da joj se predaju... Muzika nije samo nešto što nas teši, ili zabavlja, već mnogo više od toga - jedna ideologija. Ljude možete prepoznati po vrsti muzike koju slušaju. Zato što sam naučila da patim u tišini otkad znam za sebe... Zato se radije mirim sa svojom samoćom: ako u ovom trenutku pokušam od nje da pobegnem, nikad više neću naći partnera. Ako je prihvatim, umesto da se borim protiv nje, možda će se stvari promeniti. Videla sam da je samoća jača kad pokušavamo da joj se suprotstavimo, ali postaje slaba kad na nju jednostavno ne obraćamo pažnju.