Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

––Desiderius Erasmus

The world’s spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind’s muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot be dammed, and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort that might lead to madness.

––Annie Dillard

A change in the weather is enough to renew the world and ourselves.

––Marcel Proust

Religious people have so often pretended to have all the answers. They have seen their mission as being to persuade, to enforce, to level differences and perhaps even to impose uniformity. There is really something of the Grand Inquisitor in most religious people. But when religion begins to bully or insinuate, it has become unspiritual because the first gift of the spirit, creatively moving in man’s nature, is freedom and frankness.

––John Main

How can a troubled mind understand the way? Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother.

––The Buddha

The whole problem is to establish communication with one’s self.

––E.B. White

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

––Henry Miller

You can observe a lot by watching.

––Yogi Berra

One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world or to their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.

––Herakleitos

 

Some there are that torment themselves, afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both –– for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet. One should count each day a separate life.

 ––Seneca