DON’T HURRY ANYTHING. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
I HAVE REALIZED THAT the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
REAL RELIGION IS THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANXIETY INTO LAUGHTER.
ALAN WATTS
LOVE IS WITHOUT RESENTMENT AND READILY OFFERS FORGIVENESS.
WAYNE DYER
CHARLES PEGUY 1873-1914 “The Portico of the Mystery of the Second Virtue”
EVERYTHING BEGINS IN MYSTICISM AND ENDS IN POLITICS.
IT IS THE ESSENCE OF GENIUS TO MAKE USE OF THE SIMPLEST IDEAS.
IT IS BETTER TO HAVE A WAR FOR JUSTICE THAN PEACE IN INJUSTICE.
WE SHALL NEVER KNOW how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
LIFE HOLDS ONLY ONE TRAGEDY, ULTIMATELY: NOT TO HAVE BEEN A SAINT.
HE WHO DOES NOT BELLOW THE TRUTH when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
WHAT IS MOST CONTRARY TO SALVATION IS NOT SIN BUT HABIT.
TYRANNY IS ALWAYS BETTER ORGANIZED THAN FREEDOM.
WE MUST ALWAYS tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
SUFFERING PASSES; HAVING SUFFERED NEVER PASSES.
FREEDOM IS A SYSTEM BASED ON COURAGE.
THE FAITH THAT I LOVE THE BEST, SAYS GOD IS HOPE.
A WORD is not the same with one writer as with another, One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
THE HONEST MAN must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual successive, indefatigable renascent errors.
WHEN A MAN DIES, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
IT HAS NEVER been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
I PREFER A SAINT WITH FAULTS TO A SINNER WITH NONE.
WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE YOU LOVE HIM AS HE IS.
LOVE IS RARER THAN GENIUS ITSELF. And friendship is rare than love.
THERE WILL BE THINGS THAT I DO THAT NO ONE WILL BE LEFT TO UNDERSTAND.
A GREAT PHILOSOPHY is not one that passes final judgments & establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness & starts commotion.
IT IS INNOCENCE that is full & experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins & experience that loses.
THE REFERENCES YOU DO NOT VERIFY ARE THE GOOD ONES.