Quotations
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
What I call perfection of seeing is not seeing others but oneself. ~ Chuang-Tzu
It's as simple as a smile. ~ (taken from my journal)
love, tenderness, compassion, gentleness are central to my existence...cant see how I can exist any other way than to apply these to myself, to treat myself with such love & tenderness, to be kind to myself, and as a natural consequence, be always this way for & to others.
This was quite a revelation to me, last night, suddenly a whole new universe came into being...very beautiful. ~(journal entry-July 26th 2003)
The lover who wholly loves, can reach reality, comprehending the unattainable man....
Love is the path of the Baul; love, and nothing else -- wholly in love, totally in love, total trust.
To find nectar,
stir the cauldron on the fire,
and unite the act of loving
with the feeling for love.
Ordinarily people love, but they don't have a feeling for love. They exploit love. They even act like lovers, but their love is in the service of gratification. They don't have a feeling for love. They don't love love. They don't have respect, reverence for love. Love remains a lust; it never becomes worship, prayer. ~Osho: The Beloved, Vol 2.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
~William Shakepeare
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.
~Huang-Po, Zen Master
When love has carried us above all things . . . we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. What is this Light, if it be not a contemplation of the Infinite, and an intuition of Eternity? We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold; because our being, without losing anything of its own personality, is united with the Divine Truth.
~John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish Mystic 1273-1381
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Thomas Merton, Monk & Poet 1915-1968
Whether you can concentrate your thoughts or not, whether they are compassion or hatred, whether you are thinking about Buddhism or chewing your nails, you cannot by any means diverge from the Tao. You may love life of loathe it, yet your loving and loathing are themsleves manifestations of life. If you seek union with Reality your very seeking is Reality, and how can you say that you have ever lost union?
Become what you are - Alan Watts
To thine own self be true. ~Shakespeare.
Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. ~Francis Bacon.
The man who is without this dying and becoming is a sad stranger on this dark earth! Dying and becoming, - what does this mean? It means that in man there exists the possibility of growing out of and beyond himself. That which dies and is overcome is represented by the black cross which is the expression of his desires of senses. The blossoms in their purity are symbolical of the blood. The red roses and the black cross together represent the inner call to grow beyond oneself. ~ Rudolf Steiner
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile.
The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ~Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)