"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second to
look things in the face and know them for what they are."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go
on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your
own truth."
St. Bartholomew
"Symbol plucks all the strings of the human spirit at once,
speech is compelled to take up a single thought at a time. The symbol strikes
at the most secret depths of the soul; language skims the surface of
understanding."
J.J. Buchofin
“The consciousness of self dims the eye of the mind and hides
the truth.”
Buddha
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein
"One word of explanation already misses the mark."
EJO
"What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for
myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you."
Mahatma Ganhdi
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the
world seem bigger than it really is."
Kahlil Gibran "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who
knocks on them. "
Kahlil Gibran
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is
an emergency."
Natalie Goldberg
"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke
about them."
Heisenberg
"Seeing many things, but thou observest not."
Isaih 42: 20
"The vision will become clear only when you can look into your
own heart."
Carl Jung
"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe
everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
Alfred Korzybski
"What is meant... by the term "illusion" is that phenomena do
not exist independently of other phenomena, that their appearance of
independent existence is illusory. This is all that is meant by
"illusion," not that something is not really there."
Dalai Lama
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the
understanding of a problem."
J. Krishnamurti
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple
as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no
one will believe it."
Betrand Russel
"Whenever we penetrate to the heart of things, we always find
a mystery. Life and all that goes with it is unfathomable…Knowing of life is
recognition of the mysterious."
Albert Schweitzer
"Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big."
Audrey Snead
"If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out."
Rabindranath Tagore
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of
focus."
Mark Twain
