Isabel Allende · 464 pages
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“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
“But I don't want more things than I need, either.”
“Enfrenta los obstáculos a medida que se presenten, no pierdas energía temiendo lo que pueda haber en el futuro”
“The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.”
“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.”
“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.”
“Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.”
“-Cómo puedes defender este sistema de vida= !Mira la pobreza! ¿Te gustaría vivir así?
-No, Jaguar, pero tampoco me gustaría tener más de lo que se necesita - replicó ella”
“Ni su pueblo ni su familia, que tanto lo amaban, lloraron su muerte, porque creían que el llanto obliga el espíritu a quedarse en el mundo para consolar a los vivos. Lo correcto era demostrar alegría para que el espíritu se fuera contento a cumplir otro ciclos en la rueda de la reencarnación, evolucionado en cada vida hasta alcanzar finalmente la iluminación y el cielo, o Nirvana”
“—El afecto es como la luz del mediodía y no necesita la presencia del otro para manifestarse. La separación entre los seres también es ilusoria, puesto que todo está unido en el universo.”
“templos para hacer sus ofrendas, girar las ruedas de oración, y encender”
“Ya lo sé: aquí y ahora. Debemos regocijarnos con la belleza de este momento, en vez de pensar en la tormenta que vendrá...”
“Acuérdate que debes ser como el tigre del Himalaya: escucha la voz de la intuición y del instinto. Confía en las virtudes de tu corazón.”
“saw females and children who appeared to”
“purple tongue, and that the whitish hair that”
“El calendario es un invento humano; el tiempo a nivel spiritual no existe...”
“—La base del budismo es la compasión hacia todo lo que vive o existe. Dijo que cada uno debe buscar la verdad o la iluminación dentro de sí mismo, no en otros o en cosas externas. Por eso los monjes budistas no andan predicando, como nuestros misioneros, sino que pasan la mayor parte de sus vidas en serena meditación, buscando su propia verdad. Sólo poseen sus túnicas, sus sandalias y sus escudillas para mendigar comida. No les interesan los bienes materiales”
“Does it get easier, at least?"
"No, it doesn't. You just get used to the grief.”
“When I finally get you alone, with no one to interrupt us and no where to be...It isn't going to be fast.”
“Well, if this place is going down, I’ll just go home. I have hours of Real Housewives DVRed that I have to catch up on.” Holli sounded almost bored at the idea of the top fashion magazine in the country going into a tailspin. Probably because no matter what happened, she would be fine. Holli didn’t have an ego about her job, and would just as happily do cleaning product commercials as high-fashion shoots. I often used her somewhat lackadaisical approach to her career to get some perspective on my own.”
“I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. They can't be tethered or held in your palm. Just like a sparrow, they light on your porch. Their song might be brief, but how greedy would we be to ask for more? No, you cannot keep a sparrow. You can only hope that as they fly away, they take a little bit of you with them.”
“Every cook knows it's a rare day when you have all the parts of the perfect dish. But that day back at Mawton I had everything I needed: white fleshed pippins, pink quince, and a cinnamon stick that smelled like a breeze from the Indies. My flour was clean, my butter as yellow as a buttercup.”
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