It is only when everything, even love fails that with a flash, man finds out how vain, how dream-like is this world. Then he catches a glimpse of the beyond. It is only by giving up this world that the other comes, never through holding on to this one. Vivekananda (1863 – 1902)
It is necessary to study the mind itself, mind studying mind. We know that there is the power of the mind called reflective. I am talking to you… at the same time I am standing aside, as it were, a second person, and knowing and hearing that I am talking. You work and think at the same time, another portion […]
Death is not an event in life… we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
In society as it is now constituted, all the established rules have so many mechanical duties, while real duty consists in obeying the laws of our own being. Victor Cherbuliez (1829 – 1899)
Wisdom is so kind and wise that wherever you may look you can learn something about God. Why would not the omnipresent teach that way? Saint Catherine of Siena (1347 – 1380)
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Anyone writing a creative work knows that you open, you yield yourself, and the book talks to you and builds itself. To a certain extent, you become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses — or, in biblical language, “God.” This is no fancy. It is a fact. Since the inspiration […]
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell (1904 – 1987)
Self-government is indeed, the noblest rule on earth… The object of a loftier ambition than the possession of crowns or sceptres. The truest conquest is where the soul is bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. The monarch of his own mind is the only real potentate.
It is the prerogative of man’s spiritual nature that he can yield himself up to a thought and will that are infinitely larger than his own. Edward Caird (1835 – 1908)
