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)

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 […]
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)