Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart…”
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is […]
Mahmud Shabistari Quote – “Go sweep out the chamber of your heart…”
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties. Mahmud Shabistari (1288 – 1340)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Men are like rivers, the water is the same in one and all…”
One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special definite qualities: that he is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. Men are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic, or the reverse; […]
Claudian Quote – “He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.”
He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear. Claudian (circa 370 – 404)
Synesius of Cyrene Quote – “Man is not some simple object, nor is he cast in one pattern…”
Man is not some simple object, nor is he cast in one pattern, but God has made to dwell in the constitution of a single creature a host of forces mingled together and with full-toned voices. We are, I think, a monstrous animal more extraordinary than the Hydra and still more many-headed. For not with the same part of our […]
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Quote – “It is useless for the ‘self’ to try to ‘purify itself’…”
It is useless for the “self” to try to “purify itself,” or for the “self” to “make a place in itself” for God. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966)
Rudolf Steiner Quote – “We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror…”
We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world-directive full of […]
Seneca Quote – “Why does no man confess his vices?…”
Why does no man confess his vices? Because he is yet in them. It is for a waking man to tell his dream. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “How can a soul which misunderstands itself…”
How can a soul which misunderstands itself have a sure idea of other creatures? Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)