I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.
One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.
If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.
Most people are investing their whole lifetime just for their material well-being. Dying to live, this is called.
Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.
If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good. Make use of your sadness to grow. When sadness sets in, if you become more compassionate, more caring, and more loving, you have some sense in you.
By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. - Will Durant
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. - Will Durant
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change. - Will Durant
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. - Will Durant
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string. - Will Durant
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process - Will Durant
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. - Immanuel Kant
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