RAINER MARIA RILKE:
GOD speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to to limits of your longing.
Embody me.
flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you; beauty and terror.
Just keep going. no feeling is final.
don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
give me your hand.
THE BEST PEOPLE possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable, they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THERE IS NO BLUEPRINT to follow in the spiritual life. Each individual must seek within and will know what their need is and then it is up to them to answer that need & never to neglect it.
EILEEN CADDY
MIGUEL de CERVANTES–1547-1616. “DON QUIXOTE”.
TOO MUCH SANITY may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
HE WHO LOSES WEALTH loses much; he loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
IN ORDER TO ATTAIN THE IMPOSSIBLE, ONE MUST ATTEMPT THE ABSURD.
NEVER STAND BEGGING FOR THAT WHICH YOU HAVE THE POWER TO EARN.
IN EVERY CASE, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
HOW WILL HE who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
UNTIL death it is all life.
WOMAN’S ADVICE HAS LITTLE VALUE, BUT HE WHO WON’T TAKE IT IS A FOOL.
WHERE ONE DOOR SHUTS ANOTHER OPENS.
A PROVERB IS A SHORT SENTENCE BASED ON LONG EXPERIENCE.
OUR GREATEST FOES, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MANY LITTLES MAKE A MUCH.
BE SLOW OF TONGUE AND QUICK OF EYE.
CAPTIVITY IS THE GREATEST EVIL THAT CAN BEFALL MAN.
ANYONE who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
THE MAN WHO IS PREPARED HAS HIS BATTLE HALF FOUGHT.
A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN BAGS OF GOLD.
TIME RIPENS ALL THINGS; NO MAN IS BORN WISE.
GET THE BETTER OF YOURSELF — THIS IS THE BEST KIND OF VICTORY.
LOVE NOT WHAT YOU ARE BUT ONLY WHAT YOU MAY BECOME.
ONE OF THE EFFECTS OF FEAR is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
SLEEP IS THE BEST CURE FOR WAKING TROUBLES.
THE GRATIFICATION OF WEALTH is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
MIGUEL de UNAMUNO 1864-1936. “Mist”, “Tragic Sense of Life”
FASCISM IS CURED BY READING, & RACISM IS CURED BY TRAVELING.
WE SHOULD TRY to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
MY AIM is to agitate and disturb people. I’m not selling bread; I’m selling yeast.
THE LESS WE READ, THE MORE HARMFUL IT IS WHAT WE READ.
SUFFERING is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
ONLY IN SOLITUDE do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
THAT WHICH THE FASCISTS HATE ABOVE ALL IS INTELLIGENCE.
LOVE IS THE CHILD OF ILLUSION & THE PARENT OF DISILLUSION.
CURE YOURSELF OF THE AFFLICTION of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may’ve of you.
MEN SHOUT TO AVOID LISTENING TO EACH OTHER.
IT IS SAD NOT TO LOVE, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
THINK ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL AND FEEL THE INTELLECTUAL.
MAN HABITUALLY sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
MY RELIGION is to seek for truth and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
EVERYTHING that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
TRUE SCIENCE TEACHES, ABOVE ALL, TO DOUBT AND BE IGNORANT.
MAY GOD DENY YOU PEACE BUT GIVE YOU GLORY!
AN IDEA does not pass from one language to another without change.
FAITH WHICH DOES NOT DOUBT IS DEAD FAITH.
ART DISTILLS SENSATION & EMBODIES IT WITH ENHANCED MEANING.
THERE IS NO TYRANNY IN THE WORLD MORE HATEFUL THAN THAT OF IDEAS. IDEAS BRING IDEOPHOBIA, AND THE CONSEQUENCE IS THAT PEOPLE BEGIN TO PERSECUTE THEIR NEIGHBORS IN THE NAME OF IDEAS. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
IF A PERSON never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
THE GREATEST HEIGHt OF HEROISM to which an. individual. like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
AT TIMES TO BE SILENT IS TO LIE.
THE ONLY WAY to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
IF IT IS NOTHING THAT AWAITS US, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
A LOT OF GOOD ARGUMENTS are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
THERE ARE PEOPLE who are so full of common sense that they haven’t the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
THE SUPREME TRIUMPH of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
TO FALL INTO A HABIT IS TO BEGIN TO CEASE TO BE.
I POSSESS an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.
THE TRUTH IS THAT REASON IS THE ENEMY OF LIFE.
THE TEARS OF ANGUISH irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
SCIENCE robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
PHILOSOPHY fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
TO BELIEVE IN GOD is to yearn for His existence, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.