Sunday

“If you follow your own bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”

~ Joseph Campbell

“When you leave Egypt, any Egypt, do not step to think: ‘But how will I earn a living out there?’ One who stops to make provision for the way will never get out of Egypt.”

~ Nahman of Bratslav

“You should take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.”

~ Old German Proverb

“Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.”

~ Goethe

“Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of the soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.”
~ Matthew Fox, PH.D.

“Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.”

~ Marcus Aurelius

“Every grain of matter, every appearance is one with Eternal and Immutable Reality! Wherever your foot may fall, you are within the Sanctuary for Enlightenment, though it is nothing perceptible.”

Huang-Po

“Content with what comes to him without effort of his own, mounting above the pair of opposites, free from envy, his mind balanced both in success and failure; though he acts, yet the consequences do not bind him.”

~ The Bhagavad Gita