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Here you will read the innermost thoughts and feelings of inspired seekers who have gone before you. Some names you may know… others you will be glad to meet!
Character is constructed in the midsts of the tempests of the world.
The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
His eyes can read men’s inmost hearts, and all the art of hypocrites cannot decide him. His sharp discernment sees things clear and true.
In whatever way people may praise us, they never teach us anything new.
The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Always check your inner state
with the lord of your heart.
Copper doesn’t know it’s copper,
until it’s changed to gold.
Your loving doesn’t know its majesty,
until it knows its helplessness.
If the beloved is everywhere,
the lover is a veil,
but when living itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear.
In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something which does not displease us.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
The question at stake is no common one. It is, “Are we in our right sense or are we not?”
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.
The mood of one who, seeing himself carried swiftly towards an event of mighty import, has nothing to do but wait — the mood in which philosophy vests an even-minded man with the utmost calm, and is ever so serviceable.
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
It is merely that when a man has found something which he prefers to life, he then for the first time begins to live.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
If I only knew that I had taken one single step in sincerity, I would give no value to anything else.
As goes your attention, so comes your experience.
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.