One who excels at moving the enemy deploys in a configuration to which the enemy must respond. He offers something that the enemy must seize. With profit he moves them, with the foundation he awaits them. Sun Tzu (545 – 470 B.C.E.)
David Steindl-Rast Quote – “The mystics of all traditions speak one and the same language…”
The mystics of all traditions speak one and the same language: the language of religious experience. David Steindl-Rast (1926)
Socrates Quote – “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates (470 – 399 B.C.E.)
Socrates Quote – “The soul, when using the body as an instrument of perception…”
The soul, when using the body as an instrument of perception — that is to say, when using the sense of sight and hearing, or some other sense — for the meaning of perceiving through the body is perceiving through the senses — is dragged by the body through the region of the changeable (the temporal), and wanders about and […]
Socrates Quote – “Education is the kindling of a flame…”
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Unfortunately, report cards ordinarily reveal how much a vessel has been filled rather than the extent to which a flame has been kindled. Socrates (470 – 399 B.C.E.)
Socrates Quote – “Do not do to others that which would anger you…”
Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you. Socrates (470 – 399 B.C.E.)
Quotation by Jesus Christ – “When you know yourselves, then you will be known…”
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and you are poverty. Jesus Christ (circa 4 B.C.E. – 30 A.D.)
Quotation by Jesus Christ – “Recognize what is in your sight…”
Recognize what is in your sight, and what is hidden will become clear to you. Jesus Christ (circa 4 B.C.E. – 30 A.D.)
Quotation by Jesus Christ – “If you haven’t found the beginning, why ask about the end?…”
The disciples said to him, “Tell us what our end will be.” Jesus said, “If you haven’t found the beginning, why ask about the end? For where the beginning is, the end is also. Blessed are those who stand at the beginning, for they will know the end, and they will not taste death.” Jesus Christ (circa 4 B.C.E. – […]
Quotation by Jesus Christ – “This is the law and the prophets…”
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so them, for this is the law and the prophets. Jesus Christ (circa 4 B.C.E. – 30 A.D.)
