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”
“Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.”
“You crave security, Daniel. You always have. Let me tell you. There is none. A great friendship can be swept aside in an evening, a lover changed into an enemy with a single admission.”
“When describing both the act of defecating and the substance of fecal matter itself, biologists prefer to use the scientific term "poop." It's both a noun and a verb. A popular field of biology called scatology is the study of scat, which is not to be confused with mere poop. Although technically they're the same, we call it "scat" if we are studying it to learn something about the health and diet of an animal. When the animal has pooped on us or has ruined something with his pooping, we tend to use the term "shit," as in, "Oh, man, he just shit down the back of my neck." So if it's on the ground, it's poop. If it's under your microscope, it's scat. If it's running down your neck, it's shit.”
“Only those who already had love could afford to dismiss it.”
“I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.”
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