I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow’s shadow. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “One ought every day at least to…”
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Richard Cecil Quote – “I feel that all I know and all I teach…”
I feel that all I know and all I teach, will do nothing for my own soul, if I spend my time, as most people do, in business or company, even the best company. My soul starves to death in the best company; and God is often lost in prayers and ordinances. “Enter into thy chamber,” said He, “and shut […]
C.S. Lewis Quote – “Your task is not to seek for love…”
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Bhagavad-Gita Quote – “O scion of Bharat, I am also the knower of all…”
O scion of Bharat, I am also the knower of all the individual fields of activity. The understanding of the body as the field of activities, and the soul and God as the knowers of the field, this I hold to be true knowledge. Bhagavad-Gita (500 B.C.E.)
C.S. Lewis Quote – “Human history is the long terrible story of…”
Human history is the long terrible story of a man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Simone Weil Quote – “Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Simone Weil Quote – “We do not have to understand new things…”
We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Simone Weil Quote – “Attention alone, that attention which is so full that…”
Attention alone — that attention which is so full that the ‘I’ disappears — is required of me. I have to deprive all that I call ‘I’ of the light of my attention and turn it on to that which cannot be conceived. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Walt Whitman Quote – “And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality…”
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish’d breasts of melons. And as […]