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, […]
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)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
To shame the guise o’ the world, I will begin The fashion, less without and more within. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
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)
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)
To find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
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)
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)
The opposites are thieves because what you build on one is undermined by the other. Or, to put it differently, joy leads to sorrow. But whatever is built in the centre cannot be taken from you. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
