There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts. That which will be the day you laugh is […]
Ramana Maharshi Quote – “You and I are the same…”
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find peace. Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950)
George MacDonald Quote – “All the doors that lead inward to the secret place…”
All the doors that lead inward to the secret place of the most high are doors outward: out of self — out of smallness — out of wrong. George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)
George MacDonald Quote – “I find the doing of the will of God…”
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)
George MacDonald Quote – “He had no feeling that he was in the heart of a crowded universe…”
He had no feeling that he was in the heart of a crowded universe, between all whose great verities moved countless small and smaller truths. Little notion had he that to learn these after the measure of their importance, was his business, with eternity to do it in! George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)
Henri J. M. Nouwen Quote – “Solitude is the furnace of transformation…”
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932 – 1996)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Every further stage of ourselves is within us…”
Every further stage of ourselves is within us, above us. Below us lies what we are already, what we have done before. Below us, behind us, is the passive surrender to things, the inertia of the past, the habits of years, and the passive, sensual mind — the mind of the senses — with its sole belief in appearances and […]
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “A man must relate himself to new forces…”
A man must relate himself to new forces, coming from that which he has not realized, through seeing things differently, through touching ideas that have transforming power and that can only be proved by his own experience of them and never evidentially by an appeal to the outer world of the sense. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “The mystic ocean of existence…”
The mystic ocean of existence is not to be crossed as something outside ourselves. It is in oneself. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Whatever forms Christianity assumed…”
Whatever forms Christianity assumed in later times, however distorted it became, it must be remembered that its introduction was heralded by John the Baptist preaching change of mind as the first step towards “eternal” life. And this change of mind was connected by him with the teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven — an idea so difficult to grasp and […]