"Don’t sweat the small stuff. You’ll drown."
Colter Stevens
"
I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.
Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that’s wide and timeless.
So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:
a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.
"
Ranier Maria Rilke
"Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty."
Sheldon B. Kopp
"From a relativistic subjective perspective, truth is but a resting place until the next revelation. The deeper truth itself is not relativistic. It is absolute. Yet within the absolute truth there are subjective, objective, intersubjective and interobjective perceptions of it. The bottom line is: “Know thyself"
Vladimir Gvozden
"Reality does not require your explanations."
Lama Wangdor
"Truth undermines the self to which we so desperately cling. The truth is not hidden from us, we are hiding from it."
Kabbalah
"Where the Mystery is present, joy is infinite; where the Mystery has departed, efficacy is exhausted and the spirit disappears."
Ge Hong (284 - 364)
"The best are like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them."
Lao Tzu
"Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the truths and realities
of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision,
But today well lived
makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!"
Kalidasa, Indian dramatist (Circa 450)