The stakes are high for real prayer. You must gamble yourself and be willing to lose. When you have done this, and your self shakes off what you believed your self to be, then no prayer remains, only a sparkle of the eyes. Knower and known are one. If you penetrate the center of time and space, You can bypass […]
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)
Arthur Schopenhauer Quote – “All truth passes through three stages…”
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
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 […]
St. John of the Cross Quote – “In deepest solitude I found the narrow way…”
In deepest solitude I found the narrow way, a secret giving such release that I was stunned and stammering, rising above all science. St. John of the Cross (1542 – 1591)
St. John of the Cross Quote – “To come to the pleasure you have not…”
To come to the pleasure you have not You must go by a way in which you enjoy not. To come to the knowledge you have not You must go by a way in which you know not. To come to the possession you have not You must go by a way in which you possess not. To come to […]