“ The ‘relative’ delights the mind (manoranjan), the ‘real’ delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan). Dada Bhagwan
“ The danger lies in how your ‘surplus time’ is spent. If the ‘surplus time’ is spent for one’s own Soul, then it is (like) watering your own farm, but when it is used for other things [other than one’s… Dada Bhagwan
“ Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of ‘our’ own accord. Dada Bhagwan
“ She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic - who forgot the candles, who broke the wine glasses, who forgo… Arundhati Roy
“ My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. Fernando Pessoa
“ In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. Brennan Manning
“ IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood,To… Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“ The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly seek to amend our circumference and circumstances, craft and redraft our emo… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in… Robert Penn Warren
“ Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow. Vera Nazarian
“ Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others. John C. Keats
“ But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free. Ignazio Silone
