C. S. Lewis Quote – “Whenever you find a man who says he doesn’t…”

Whenever you find a man who says he doesn’t believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986), Living Book, The Seeker

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “The understanding of oneself is not a result, a culmination…”

The understanding of oneself is not a result, a culmination; it is seeing oneself from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship — one’s relationship to property, to things, to people and to ideas. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), Living Book, The Seeker

Henry David Thoreau Quote – “What I have to do is to see…”

What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Living Book, The Seeker, Washington Irving (1783 – 1859)

Washington Irving Quote – “The imagination is alternately a cheat and a dupe…”

The imagination is alternately a cheat and a dupe; nay, more, it is the most subtle of cheats, for it cheats itself, and becomes the dupe of its own delusions. It conjures up “airy nothings,” gives to them a “local habitation and a name,” and then bows to their control as implicitly as if they were realities. Washington Irving (1783 […]

Living Book, The Seeker, Washington Irving (1783 – 1859)

Washington Irving Quote – “It is not poverty so much as pretense…”

It is not poverty so much as pretense, that harasses a ruined man. The struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Washington Irving (1783 – 1859)

Living Book, Simone Weil (1909 – 1943), The Seeker

Simone Weil Quote – “The mind moves in a closed space of partial truth…”

The mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which can be more or less big, without ever being able to cast a glance on what is beyond it. If a captive mind ignores its own captivity, it lives in error. If it recognizes it, even if for a tenth of a second, and if it is pressed to […]

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986), Living Book, The Seeker

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “War is merely an outward expression of our inward state…”

War is merely an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action. It is more spectacular, more bloody, more destructive, but it is the collective result of our individual activities. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)