quote from einstein and nabakov

I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wind, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain.
I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but the shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed upon us and unappreciated.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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 feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

Einstien - 

letter to a distraught father who had lost his young son and had asked Einstein for some comforting words":

The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (Princeton University Press, 2005: ISBN 0691120749), p. 206

self-allergy

"The experience of I, me, a personal existence, ego, self, whatever you want to call it, has a sense of immense fundamental pain. You don't want to exist, you don't want to be, but you can't help it... We are allergic to ourselves; therefore, we create all kinds of sicknesses and pains."

 Chogyam Trungpa - Dharma Art

Maha Ati by Trungpa & words from Reggie Ray

There‘s a wonderful saying that I quote a lot, from an article called 'Maha Ati,' by Trungpa Rinpoche in the late seventies, which is:

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness toward all situations and all emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally, without mental reservation, and without centralizing onto oneself.

The thing is, this isn‘t just a nice meditation instruction. When you follow that instruction, you begin to realize that, when you step beyond all of the mental evasion that we go through all the time, and all of our attempts to block things out and shut them down, situations actually nourish you. In that moment of opening, you feel wild, and you feel joy. The wildness doesn‘t come from the experience; the wildness comes from letting go into it—letting go of our reservation and our mental evasion, through our practice...you let go, and then there‘s this vast affirmation of beingness.

Reggie Ray