Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think about, for the spirit is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
The Transformative Power of Freedom and Faith
Two ideas we don’t often think of together are “freedom” and “faith.” And yet, if you read what some of the great sages have to say about freedom, they often bring in the idea of faith as its integral partner. We cannot be free when life doesn’t make sense to us; when it doesn’t seem to have any meaning beyond […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Instead of every man directing his energies to freeing himself…”
Instead of every man directing his energies to freeing himself, to transforming his conception of life, people seek for an external united method of gaining freedom, and continue to rivet their chains faster and faster. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life…”
By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
William Shakespeare Quote – “This fault in us I find…”
This fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err; O, then conclude Minds sway’d by eyes are full of turpitude. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “By Jove, I will not speak a word…”
By Jove, I will not speak a word: There is between my will and all offences A guard of patience. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Richard Jefferies Quote – “The friction of a thousand interests…”
The friction of a thousand interests evolves a condition of electricity in which men are moved to and fro without considering their steps. Yet the agitated pool of life is stonily indifferent, the thought is absent or preoccupied, for it is evident that the mass are unconscious of the scene in which they act. Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887)
Richard Jefferies Quote – “No thought which I have ever…”
No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul. Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887)
Charles Dickens Quote – “All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers…”
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else’s manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly […]
Charles Dickens Quote – “Every failure teaches a man something…”
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn. Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
