Every time that a fragment of inexpressible truth passes into words that, although they are not able to contain the truth that inspired them, have by their order a perfect correspondence with truth that furnishes support to every spirit that wants to find it. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
We do not enter into the truth without having passed through our own nothingness; without having sojourned for a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Most of us believe that achieving success is an enviable thing. And yet, when we hear of the experiences of people who have attained what we think of as success, they often tell us it just isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, no matter what they get, it’s never enough. They always feel compelled to run […]
The wine of divine Grace is limitless. All limits come only from the limitation of the cup. Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon, How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. Grant a great dignity, my friend, to the cup of your life; Love has designed it to hold His eternal wine. Jalal al-Din […]
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The fault–finder will find faults even in paradise. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Have you ever seen time-lapse photography of a budding seed? It reveals something very interesting about the nature of growth. The new plant doesn’t break out of the seed husk and then grow toward the light in one continuous motion. Rather there are starts and stops and even setbacks all along the way. There are forward steps and backward steps, […]
The key to leaving behind our self-created and self-limited world is to be found in our willingness to keep going even when it “feels” like something bad is happening to us or that we’re going “nowhere fast.” The idea of quitting or turning back is the unfortunate option that occurs only when we have an incomplete understanding of any given […]
