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Know Thyself

Knowing others, one is learned; Knowing thyself, one is enlightened. Conquering others requires force; Conquering oneself requires strength. Knowing contentment, one is rich; Having perseverance, one is firm; Abiding in the center, one endures; Even in dying, one enjoys eternal life. -Lao Tzu (As seen on People for Others)[ READ MORE ]

Frederick Buechner

I happened randomly on this author today through a Jesuit blog. I saw a quote of his on the sidebar and had to investigate. I read through more of his quotes and I quite like them. I love it when someone sees the personal significance behind what we claim to believe, and when someone finds [ READ MORE ]

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Oh God, I wish from now on to be the first to become conscious of all that the world loves, pursues, and suffers; I want to be the first to seek, to sympathize, and to suffer; the first to unfold and sacrifice myself, to become more widely human and more nobly of the earth than [ READ MORE ]

Fyodor Dostoevsky 1812-1881

As Rosamonde pointed out, Dostoevsky was born today 197 years ago.  Here are a few quotes in remembrance of him.   “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others” “So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and [ READ MORE ]

Thomas Merton from Raids on the Unspeakable

“And to have the will to be saved, must one limit oneself very carefully to a few select things that are taken seriously? And must everything else be ignored? In other words, to be saved is to exclude from consideration the possibility that one might be damned? To take that possibility of damnation seriously is, [ READ MORE ]

The Purest Wine

God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds. God has put into the form of hashish a power to deliver the taster from self-consciousness. God has made sleep so that it erases every thought. God made Majnun love Layla so much that just her dog would [ READ MORE ]

Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi

On this day, 802 years ago, one of the greatest poets and mystics to ever live was born.  To celebrate, here are some of his powerful quotes: “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a [ READ MORE ]

Fantasy and Reality

“As a younger person, I would have loved to enter a Tolkien-esque world (and could easily pass for a hobbit too!), and some of the imaginary worlds I was drawing as a teenager, but I don’t really have those kind of escapist longings any more. More and more I see fantasy worlds – as in [ READ MORE ]

The Price of Hatred

From Paulo Coelho’s blog: A conversation between him and his spiritual master. “It’s very difficult. But there is no choice: if you don’t pardon, then you’ll think about the pain they caused you and that pain will never go away. I’m not saying that you have to like those who do you wrong. I’m not [ READ MORE ]

The Pearl

I just listened to a radio show from one of my friends on Facebook on the topic of Gnosticism and the Hymn of the Pearl.  I get a lot out of myth and the resulting analysis of them, and so this section of his talk was very interesting to me. Basic story: “The Hymn of [ READ MORE ]

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