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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Confucius
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful
sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade. But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you and this whole world is springing up from it.
Mevlânâ Jellaleddin Rumi
...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Plato
What we are looking for is what is looking.
St. Francis of Assisi
Know thyself.
Socrates
If those who lead you say to you, “See, the Kingdom is in the sky,” then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, “It
is in the sea,” then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know
yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know
yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
Jesus of Nazareth
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art
and science.
Albert Einstein
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
Carl Gustav Jung
There is no reality in the absence of observation.
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness – enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid
unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
Chang-Tzu
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step
that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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