Diogenes was free. How so? Not because he was of free parentage, for that was not the case, but because he was himself a free man. He had cast aside every handle by which he might be enslaved… All things sat loosely upon him, all things were attached by slender ties. Epictetus (55 – 135 A.D.)
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
If a man is a good judge of silver, he will know, for the coin will tell its own story. Epictetus (55 – 135 A.D.)
If you are in Gyaros, do not let your mind dwell upon life at Rome; do not think about the pleasures offered to you when living in Rome, and all that would reward your return. Instead, be intent on discovering how the man who lives in Gyaros can live in Gyaros like an inspired man. And if you are in […]
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot (1819 – 1880)
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats (1795 – 1821)
When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind, a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object. Thich Nhat Hahn (1926)
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Don’t you remember on earth there were things too hot to touch with your finger but you could drink them all right? Shame is like that. If you will accept it — if you will drink the cup to the bottom — you will find it very nourishing; but try to do anything else with it and it scalds. C. […]
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
