February 2012
January 2012
“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“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...”
– Ranier Maria Rilke
“Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the...”
– Sheldon B. Kopp
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“From a relativistic subjective perspective, truth is but a resting place until...”
– Vladimir Gvozden
“Reality does not require your explanations.”
– Lama Wangdor
“Truth undermines the self to which we so desperately cling. The truth is not...”
– Kabbalah
“Where the Mystery is present, joy is infinite; where the Mystery has departed,...”
– Ge Hong (284 - 364)
“The best are like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not...”
– Lao Tzu
“Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course...”
– Kalidasa, Indian dramatist (Circa 450)
“A river is only the surrendered heart of a million tiny beads of rain. A river...”
– Abdur Rahm, excerpt from “The Ocean Rests Not …”
The Enlightened Heart
“Center of all centers, core of cores
almond self enclosed and growing sweet
all this universe, to the farthest stars
and beyond them is your flesh, your fruit
Now you feel how nothing clings to you
Your vast shell reaches into endless space
and there the thick rich fluids, rise and flow
Illuminated in your infinite peace …”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“Nil desperandum (never despair).”
– Horace
The more present you become, the closer to the Self you arrive.
“It is never a question of belief; the only scientific attitude one can take on...”
– Sri Yukteswar
“It`s always difficult. To feel, rather than to think, to tap into that source...”
– Ben Foster
“The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying...”
– Edgar Cayce
“If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your...”
– Hindu teaching
Be sure to dismount your high horse frequently
“Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a...”
– Jean Anouilh
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
This is the year to do that thing you’ve been putting off
“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire,...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
“The present moment is a powerful goddess.”
– Johann Goethe
“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?”
– Havelock Ellis
“And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
