{"quotes":[{"text":"A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["disquiet","enlightenent","enlightenment","peaceful","peacefulness","philosophical-musings","philosophy-of-life","philsophical-thought","self-awareness","self-realization","self-transcendence","self-transformation","selfless","selfless-love","selfless-service"],"id":13957,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["choose-your-own-path","choose-yourself","comfort-zone","give-yourself-permission","go-for-it","just-do-it","motivational-inspirational","motivational","permission","permission-to-win","risk-it","risk-taking","self-transcendence","self-transformation","self-trust","trust","trust-yourself","try-something-new"],"id":16147,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["joy","joyful","joyful-living","joyful-living","joyful","self-transcendence","self-transformation","selfless","selfless-deeds","selfless-service","selflessness","transcendence","transformation"],"id":103387,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["experience","human-nature","longing","self-transcendence","understanding"],"id":106484,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.","author":"Charles Olson","tags":["listening","nature","noumenal","object","self-knowledge","self-transcendence","subject"],"id":106601,"author_id":"Charles+Olson"},{"text":"Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["healing","personal-growth","personal-growth","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-determination","self-development","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-help","self-help","self-transcendence","self-transformation","transformation"],"id":193866,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.","author":"Oli Anderson","tags":["happiness","health","life-purpose","mission","purpose","self-esteem","self-transcendence"],"id":321053,"author_id":"Oli+Anderson"},{"text":"Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["faith","prayer","self-transcendence","void"],"id":327965,"author_id":"William+Barrett"},{"text":"Fate demands that we continue suffering, until we willingly seek out and discover the sacred path of righteousness. Until we surrender to the sameness of life, we are unable to experience the absolute ground zero of reality. Only by surrendering our desires, by readjusting our consciousness to a state undefined, unbound, and unmotivated by passion and desire, will we experience life transformed.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["desire","desire","enlightenment","enlightenment","self-transcendence","self-transformation","suffering","suffering-life","suffering"],"id":330489,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["meaning","self-transcendence","source-of-self","unity"],"id":418676,"author_id":"William+Barrett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}