If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
← Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don’t judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don’t make a personal problem out of them – Eckhart TollePhilosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism – Albert Einstein →