Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Jean Klein (1912 – 1998)
Lao Tzu Quote – “If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained…”
If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed By the very thing you seek. To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, […]
Thomas Carlyle Quote – “O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual…”
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, “here or nowhere,” couldst thou only see. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Marcel Proust Quote – “The real voyage of discovery consists not in…”
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
William Shakespeare Quote – “To shame the guise o’ the world…”
To shame the guise o’ the world, I will begin The fashion, less without and more within. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation…”
Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Everything lies in relationship…”
Everything lies in relationship, in how you relate yourself to things. You cannot change the thing itself but you can change your relationship to it. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “To find life’s purpose…”
To find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “If you observe, you will see that there is an interval between two thoughts…”
If you observe, you will see that there is an interval between two thoughts, between two emotions. In that interval, which is not the product of memory, there is an extraordinary freedom from the “me” and the “mine,” and that interval is timeless. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Kabir Quote – “One Love it is that pervades the whole world…”
One Love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation. Kabir (circa 1398 – 1518)