This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
-Scriptures
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
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 Stephen Szasz
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is not fashionable to talk with them.
-Mother Teresa
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
-Ray Bradbury
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa