Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
-Mark Twain
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
-Ashly Lorenzana
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
An experience teaches ably the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
He who trusts in God and makes an honest living to share with others and injures no one, nor harbours ill will against another need perform no other rituals.
