When you muster the courage to processes reality as it is instead of sweeping feelings or emotions under the rug, you become stronger.
Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more, says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. But to lose oneself in a city—...
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.
But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till t...
The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
I used to be mad when they called me crazy, until I realized that in those moment they consider me insane I was following my heart, doing what makes me happy and most of all being myself.so now when I...
The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.
No one knows a man better than himself.
Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you. Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom ... I'm great comp...
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.
Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can't be satisfiedshall take a look at the wo...
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you.
Trust your sacred-soul. It is a divine self.
Your soul is your sacred self.
Enlightenment is the key to empowerment.