Quote from Ramakrishna, Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

Ramakrishna, Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna 

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Quote from Nick Flynn, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

Here’s a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. When it does, when one day you look around and nothing is recognizable, when you find yourself alone in a dark wood having lost the way, you may find it easier to blame it on someone else — an errant lover, a missing father, a bad childhood — or it may be easier to blame the map you were given — folded too many times, out-of-date, tiny print — but mostly, if you are honest, you will only be able to blame yourself.One day I’ll tell my daughter a story about a dark time, the dark days before she was born, and how her coming was a ray of light. We got lost for a while, the story will begin, but then we found our way.

Nick Flynn, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 

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Quote from Lisa Kleypas, Where Dreams Begin

I’ll follow you to the next life if I have to,” he whispered harshly in her ear. “You’ll never be free of me. I’ll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond.” He continued to whisper without stopping while his hands gripped her body close to his. “You stay with me, Holly,” he muttered savagely. “Don’t do this to me. You stay, damn you.

Lisa Kleypas, Where Dreams Begin 

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