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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.
- Chogyam Trungpa
Don’t think twice, it’s alright.
- Bob Dylan
There is a palace that opens only to tears
- Zohar
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
- Claude Monet
Art teaches nothing but the significance of life.
- Henry Miller
Conduct is more convincing than language.
- John Woolman
The melody is in the eyes.
- Nicholas Ray
Tenderness contains an element of sadness. It is not the sadness of feeling sorry for yourself or feeling deprived but it is a natural situation of fullness. You feel so full and rich, as if you were about to shed tears. Your eyes are full of tears, and the moment you blink, the tears will spill out of your eyes and roll down your cheeks. In order to be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart. If a person does not feel alone or sad, he cannot be a warrior at all.
- Chogyam Trungpa
There is only one thing pain is good for. It teaches you to love. Good bless pain.
- Joey Goldfarb
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain is wasn’t a fish.
- John Culkin
Civilized man has exchanged some part of his chances of happiness for a measure of security.
- Sigmund Freud
Wildness is the state of complete awareness. That’s why we need it.
- Gary Snyder
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
- Sanislaw J. Lec
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness!
- George Bernard Shaw
The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme death, the death of self, the death of me and mine, the death of the watcher. It is the ultimate and final disappointment.
- Chogyam Trungpa
Life shrinks and expands according to one’s courage.
- Anais Nin
There is a story that as God and Satan were walking down the street one day, the Lord bent down and picked something up. He gazed at it glowing radiantly in His hand. Satan, curious, asked “What’s that?” “This” answered the Lord, “is Truth.” “Here,” replied Satan as he reached for it, “let me have it –I’ll organize it for you.”
- Ram Dass
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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
- Bette Reese
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Kahlil Gibran
He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
- C.W. Leadbeater
Whoever loves true life, will love true love.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.
- Albert Einstein
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
- J. Krishnamurti
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow
The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other. Whatever they do, who have not much of God’s nature, they work in vain.
- Meister Eckhart
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow
To feel life is meaningless unless “I” can be [XYZ] is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.
- Alan Watts
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you… Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all things will be added to you.
- Jesus
All who seek the roots of life dig in solitude for them.
- C.H.A. Bjerregaard
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I’m looking for the face I had before the world was made.
- William Butler Yeats
One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
- Suzuki Daisetz
God instructs the heart not by ideas, but by pains and contraditions.
- Jean Pierre de Caussade
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran
You cannot truly lisen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
- M. Scott Peck
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
- Immanuel Kant
My life is my message.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything we come across is to the point.
- John Cage
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
- A.J. Muste
There is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn.
- A Course in Miracles
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
- Suzuki Roshi
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
- J. Krishnamurti
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No trace: When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
- Suzuki Roshi
I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. I would not lead you to the promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, somebody else would lead you out.
- Eugene V. Debs
Only the man who can consciously assent to the power of the inner voice becomes a personality.
- Carl Jung
Spontaneity (the impulse from our best self) gets confused with impulsivity and acting-out (the impulses from our sick self) and there is then no way to tell the difference.
- Abraham Maslow
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Great love too must be endured.
- Coco Chennel
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
Who told you that you were permitted to settle in? Who told you that this or that would last forever? Did no one ever tell you that you will never feel at home in this world?
- Stanislaw Baranczak
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that “talent” to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
Enlightened space, the place of unconditional love, cannot be achieved until and unless one is willing to be comfortable with paradox and confusion.
- Ralph Walker
It’s hard to face that open space.
- Neil Young
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Pain
No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your pain is he breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
- Richard Bach
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
- Chogyam Trungpa
In order to do it is necessary to be. And it is necessary first to understand what to be means.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The function of dreams is to teach the waking mind how to forget what it thinks it knows but doesn’t.
- William R. Stimson
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
He who would know the world, seek first within his being’s depths; he who would truly know himself, develop interest in the world.
- Rudolf Steiner
A soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
- Emily Dickenson
When one is free of all desire to become, there is a state of being whose action is totally different. It IS. That which IS has no time. It does not think in terms of fulfillment. Its very being is in its fulfillment.
- J. Krishnamurti
Courage is the price that Life extracts for granting peace.
- Ameila Earhart
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
- Jean Paul Sartre
There are no perfect beings, and there never will be.
- Henry Miller
What you are looking for is who is looking.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain
There is a time for expanding and a time for contraction; one provokes the other and the other calls for the return of the first….Never are we nearer the Light then when darkness is deepest.
- Swami Vivekananda
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
- Henry David Thoreau
God is my ground. I am God’s ground.
- Meister Eckhart
Won’t you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you.
- Richard B. Sheridan
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
- Hippocrates
Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable.
- Carl Jung
One is not born a woman [or a man], one becomes one.
- Simone de Beauvoir
To the question “Where does the soul go, when the body dies?” Jacob Boehme answered, “There is no necessity for it to go anywhere.”
- Aldous Huxley
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once she grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul
- Jewish proverb
There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.
- Thomas Fuller
The Kingdom of God is within you.
- Jesus
Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.
- Sigmund Freud
One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure one’s own is the last to be dug up.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
- P.D. Ouspensky
Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.
- Suzuki Roshi
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
- Richard Wagner
The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.
- Henry Miller
The game isn’t over til it’s over.
- Yogi Berra
Be wary of any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
- M.C. Richards
Time is Breath.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
It is only by acknowledging impermanence that there is the chance to die and the space to be reborn and the possibility of appreciating life as a creative process.
- Chogyam Trungpa
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.
- Baha’u’llah
Let my hidden weeping arise and blossom.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed…. Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
- Chogyam Trungpa
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
- John Fowles
Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was ourselves.
- Robert Frost
What’s holding her back drives her on…
- Osip Mandelstam
The next message you need is always right where you are.
- Ram Das
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- A Course in Miracles
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