Quotes

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.
Lawrence LeShan

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Thomas Merton

…the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?
Rene Daumal

Once you are are in that state of "Here" and "Now", nothing affects you - because our emotions are a result of our past experience and beliefs.
Michael Relfe

The two best prayers are “Help me, help me, help me” and “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Anne Lamott

“Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.”
Rumi

“Having nothing produces provisions.  Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears."
Rumi

“But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.”
Rumi

Shape your tools or you will be shaped by them.
Hacker Philosophy

“World power means nothing.  Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.”
Rumi

“A thief loves the night.  I am day. I reveal essences.”
Rumi

“Who are the angels on your shoulders, helping you dig through the tragedies and painful experiences or inspiring you to create a better life for yourself?”
Linda Anderson

“To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.”
Fred Rodgers

“If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!”
Fred Rodgers

“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
Karen Horney

“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression."
Mark Epstein

“People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.”
Wilhelm Stekel

“Self importance is man’s greatest enemy.”
Carlos Castanada

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain.”
“The Power of Now”

“Create your future from the future not your past.”
Werner Erhard

“This is it.  There are no hidden meanings.  All that mystical stuff is just what’s so.”
Werner Erhard

“If you just set people in motion, they’ll heal themselves.”
Gabrielle Roth

“Depression is rage spread thin.”
George Santayana

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
The Dalai Lama

“Through violence, you may solve one problem, but you sow the seeds for many others.”
The Dalai Lama

“You only lose what you cling to.”
Gautama Siddarta

“There is no baser folly than the infatuation that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.”
Tirukural

Everywhere you look you see the evidence of pathology in control...Who needs aliens when we have psychopaths to deal with?
Laura Knight-Jadczyk

The Love you withhold is the suffering you carry, lifetime to lifetime.
Alex Collier

The following are quotes taken from the writings of Samael Aun Weor, the great XXth century Gnostic Master.

from the book Igneous Rose

We must learn to think with the heart and to feel with the head.

from the book Aztec Christic Magic

Cosmic initiations are reached by way of the heart, never by way of the intellect.

from the bookThe Great Rebellion

When one discovers the real cause of so much misery and bitterness, it becomes obvious that something can be done...

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

from the book Fundamentals of Gnostic Education

In order to be truly free, one needs to be sensitive and humane.

When the mind is conditioned by memory, it only repeats what it has accumulated. A mind conditioned by the experiences of so many yesterdays can only see the present through the cloudy lens of the past.

People who have very little spiritual values within, who are internally poor, always seek something external to make themselves complete.

The only thing that can transform the world is love; however, the mind destroys love. We need to study our own mind, to observe it, to profoundly investigate it, to truly comprehend it. Thus, only in this way, by becoming masters of ourselves, masters of our own mind, will we kill the killer of love; thus, we will become truly happy.

It is necessary to understand the beauty of kindness, to feel the beauty of good music, to love the beauty of creative art, to readjust our manner of thinking, feeling, and acting.

from the book Revolutionary Psychology

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.

The external is merely the reflection of the internal.  Therefore, whosoever changes internally originates a new order of things.

When the day one is living is taken as the totality of one’s life, when one does not leave for tomorrow what one must do this very day, then indeed one gets to know what the work on oneself really means.

Knowledge and comprehension are different.  Knowledge is of the mind.  Comprehension is of the heart.

In order to pass to a superior Level of Being, it is necessary to cease being what one is.  We need to not be what we are. If we continue being what we are, we will never pass to a superior Level of Being.

All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the “exterior is the reflection of the interior.” When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life, and the external also change.

The best weapon that a human being can use in life is a correct psychological state. One can disarm beasts and unmask traitors by means of appropriate internal states. Wrong internal states convert us into defenseless victims of human perversity. You must learn to face the most unpleasant events of practical life with an appropriate internal uprightness...You must not become identified with any event.  Remember that everything passes away.  You must learn to look at life like a movie; thus, you shall receive the benefits...

from the book The Revolution of the Dialectic

Every problem has been created by the mind and exists as long as the mind sustains it.

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

We live our entire miserable life going from one extreme to another: victory, defeat; like, dislike; pleasure, pain; failure, success; this, that, etc.  We need to free ourselves from the tyranny of the opposites. This is only possible by learning how to live from moment to moment without any type of abstractions, without any dreams and without any fantasies.

We have to learn to receive with gladness the unpleasant manifestations of our fellowmen

from the book The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah

Those who only preoccupy themselves with their own spiritual progress and do not work for others achieve absolutely nothing.  Whosoever wants to progress must sacrifice the self for others.

from The Yellow Book

Be gentle in order to listen; merciful in order to judge.