You are weaving your bondage of falsehood, your words are full of deception: With the load of desires which you hold on your head, how can you be light? Kabir (circa 1398 – 1518)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “Truth has always had many loud proclaimers…”
Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Jacob Boehme Quote – “As the worm, crawling in the dust of the earth…”
As the worm, crawling in the dust of the earth, cannot rise like the eagle above the clouds, so the self-willing thought of man, wandering in the labyrinth of conflicting opinions, does not enter the realm of eternal truth. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
Alan Watts Quote – “The myths underlying our culture…”
The myths underlying our culture and our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only with parts of it. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)
Paul Brunton Quote – “Like a stone in a shoe which he stubbornly refuses to remove…”
Like a stone in a shoe which he stubbornly refuses to remove, the fault still remains in his character when he stubbornly insists on blaming things or condemning persons for its consequences. Paul Brunton (1898 – 1981)
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 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 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)
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 […]
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)