It is only when everything, even love fails that with a flash, man finds out how vain, how dream-like is this world. Then he catches a glimpse of the beyond. It is only by giving up this world that the other comes, never through holding on to this one. Vivekananda (1863 – 1902)
It is necessary to study the mind itself, mind studying mind. We know that there is the power of the mind called reflective. I am talking to you… at the same time I am standing aside, as it were, a second person, and knowing and hearing that I am talking. You work and think at the same time, another portion […]
One who rejects instruction is the foe of his own soul. Valerian – Proverbs 15:32 (circa 450)
Death is not an event in life… we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
It is merely that when a man has found something which he prefers to life, he then for the first time begins to live. G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, and insanity are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel. G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
The whole world belongs to Asga Ya Galun Lati, the Great Spirit. Cherokee Adage
In society as it is now constituted, all the established rules have so many mechanical duties, while real duty consists in obeying the laws of our own being. Victor Cherbuliez (1829 – 1899)
The idea of God is the idea of our own spiritual natures enlarged to infinity. William Ellery Channing (1780 – 1842)
In this patient, though uncheered obedience, we become prepared for light. The soul gathers force. William Ellery Channing (1780 – 1842)
