We seek what one might call a relative omnipotence: the power to have everything we want, to enjoy everything we desire, to demand that all our wishes be satisfied and that our will should never be frustrated or opposed. It is the need to have everyone else bow to our judgment and accept our declarations as law. It is the […]
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
When you feel you are right you may be sure you are asleep. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
When we look at the world through the veil of our desires we make it small and narrow, and fail to perceive its full truth. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)
Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking ‘I’. And each time his ‘I’ is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man’s name is legion. P. D. Ouspensky (1878 – 1947)
Man’s sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder. Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
We are surrounded by a wall built of our conceptions of the world, and are unable to look over this wall at the real world. P. D. Ouspensky (1878 – 1947)
Everything that reaches us in the course of the day, and in the course of our whole life, is relative to us. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
