“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an in….”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.”
–Annie Besant (English Social Reformer, Fabian, Theosophist and Leader in the Movement for Indian Independence, 1847-1933)
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
–Dale Carnegie (American Educator and Author, 1888-1955)
“God’s activity runs through the entire universe. It wells up around and penetrates every created being. Wherever they are, it is there also. It runs ahead of them, it stays with them, and it follows after them.”
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (French Jesuit Priest and Author, 1675-1751)
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
–Virginia Woolf (English Writer, 1882-1941)
“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them.
When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.”
–Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedish Scientist, Mystic and Philosopher, 1688-1772)
“There is a mystical truth in the saying about the ‘web of interrelatedness’: When a leaf falls to the earth, the universe is shaken. Just so, when one writes a single word, the universe is shaken.”
–William Samuel (American Writer, Spiritual Seeker, Mystic and Teacher, 1924-1996)
“Everything is bound up with everything else in a pattern both absolute and universal. We are links in the great chain of being, in which the hierarchy of the human body parallels the hierarchies of the nature, the state, the cosmos.”
–Jean Houston (American Scholar, Researcher and Author on Human Potentialities, 1937-)
“Enlightenment is first of all coming to understand that there is no self in the conventional sense.
People tend to think of the self as, “Well, I’m the guy who went to this high school and had these parents, and I’m the guy who’s got an accounting degree, and I worked my way through it all and achieved these things.”
Now that’s purely an illusory self that we’re talking about. Enlightenment is coming to understand or experience that there is no objective self-there is a being, but there’s no objective self-and it’s in the process of letting go of that notion that one experiences what one truly is in the universal sense. That’s when enlightenment comes-when you realize that you are not in control. And because of that, you are very much in control.”
–Vernon Kitabu Turner (African American Poet, Martial Artist and Writer, 1948-)
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them … I shall use my time.”
–Jack London (American Novelist, 1876-1916)
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