There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity, a wondrous something that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education (though I think it the goal and apex of all education deserving the name), an intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of this multifariousness, this revel of […]
The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us, coming through matter. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Enough to think that truth can be; Come sit we where the roses glow; Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow. Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890)
The waters know their own, and draw The brook that springs in yonder heights; So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delights. The stars come nightly to the sky; The tidal wave comes to the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep my own away from me. John Burroughs (1837 – […]
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs (1837 – 1921)
Why do you take by force what you could obtain by love? Chief Wahunsenacawh Powhatan (1545 – 1618)
Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation, Blinding my tearful eyes, Burst into immortal flames of bliss, Consumed my tears, my frame, my all. Thou art I, I am Thou, Knowing, Knower, Known, as One! Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever new peace! Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss! Not a mental chloroform Or unconscious state without wilful return, Samadhi but […]
