Anxiety has been a major part of the daily human experience — well, forever it seems. And with everything we’ve done to make ourselves feel better about all of life’s often startling events, it seems we just become more anxious. But the great sages have always told us a new view of life would show us the deeper source of […]
Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
There are two futures, one in time and one in scale, one horizontal — the other vertical and always there, just above our present state. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
When you feel you are right you may be sure you are asleep. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
When we find ourselves in an unwanted situation, it often seems like things will stay that away forever. One day we find ourselves alone, and we tell ourselves we’ll always be lonely. Maybe our plans are thwarted, and we feel like we’ll never be happy. Even physically, when we have a headache or a bout of indigestion, it seems like […]
We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of […]
Everything lies in relationship, in how you relate yourself to things. You cannot change the thing itself but you can change your relationship to it. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
When we look at the world through the veil of our desires we make it small and narrow, and fail to perceive its full truth. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)
To find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
If you observe, you will see that there is an interval between two thoughts, between two emotions. In that interval, which is not the product of memory, there is an extraordinary freedom from the “me” and the “mine,” and that interval is timeless. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
