There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
Silence
is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all
foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as
after disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau
Everybody
should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make
him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest
sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete
silence. ~Andre Kostelanetz
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,
And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
~Joaquin Miller
People
often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the
self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas
Szasz
Be
patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the
questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written
in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be
given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is,
to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find
them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day
into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
It
is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that
we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it
stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong
When
one feels pulled to do a particular thing, when one has passion for a
certain life path, karma is always involved. In such an instance, when
the goal is worthy and makes one happy, one should continue on that same
life path. Just because the elephant cannot carry you anymore doesn't
mean you should give up your goal. Continue down the path that makes
you feel fulfilled. Those who continue on an unrewarding path for the
sake of only monetary gain are displaying a lack of trust in life.
~Kwan Yin
We
have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and
celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there
are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally
vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks
One
certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in
a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out,
I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any
other. ~Lord Byron
Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a
truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I
have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all
paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a
reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
~Kahlil Gibran
When
I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I
may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way
between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to
him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in
letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
In
many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of
God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign
complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we
paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose
against it. ~Robert Brault
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
~Alexander Pope
Remember
this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire
continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to
withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but
they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from
God. ~Augustine
It
always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image
of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty
and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our
mind the thought of God. ~Vincent van Gogh
For,
after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth
to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth,
love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we
think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out
something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis
What
is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or
taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals
all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and
always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all
return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God. ~Robert
Brault
