We must fight the fight! We only find rest in effort. Henri Amiel (1821 – 1881)
Buddha Quote – “I have given you the refreshing drink called…”
I have given you the refreshing drink called the perception of truth, and he who drinks of it becomes free from excitement, passion, and wrong-doing. Buddha (circa 560 – 483 B.C.E.)
Buddha Quote – “The very gods envy the bliss of him who…”
The very gods envy the bliss of him who has escaped from the floods of passion and has climbed the shores of Nirvana… He is like unto the lotus which grows in the water, yet not a drop of water adheres to its petals. The man who walks in the noble path lives in the world, and yet his heart […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “Nothing is more hidden from us than…”
Nothing is more hidden from us than the illusion which lives with us day by day, and our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. Henri Amiel (1821 – 1881)
Henri Amiel Quotes – “The philosopher laughs, for he alone escapes being duped…”
The philosopher laughs, for he alone escapes being duped, while he sees other men the victims of persistent illusion. He is like some mischievous spectator of a ball who has cleverly taken all the strings from the violins, and yet sees musicians and dancers moving and pirouetting before him as though the music were still going on. Henri Amiel (1821 […]
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “All things change…”
All things change, yet we need not fear anything new. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “In the same degree in which a man’s mind is…”
In the same degree in which a man’s mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “It is in your power, whenever you choose…”
It is in your power, whenever you choose, to retire into yourself. Nowhere can you retire with more quietness or more freedom than within your own spirit… Constantly give yourself to this retreat and renew yourself. Let your principles be brief and fundamental, and when you have returned to them, that will be enough to purify the spirit completely, and […]
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “You can remove out of the way many useless things…”
You can remove out of the way many useless things which disturb you, for they lie entirely in your opinion towards them. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “As we live through thousands of dreams…”
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last […]
