Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
-Matthew Prior
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
When salt mixes with water, it takes the form of water. In the same way samadhi or trance means the mind merging with the cosmic soul or God.
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
What you are is God’s gift to you; what you make of it is your gift to God.
-Anthony Dalla Villa