“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous,…
Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. –Soren Kierkegaard
M. Scott Peck MD
What does a life of total dedication to the truth mean? It means first of all a continuous and never-ending stringent self examination. We know the world through our relationship to it…. The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with actions.
Norman Cousins
Nothing clutters the soul more than remorse, resentment, recrimination. Negative feelings occupy a fearsome amount of space in the mind, block our perceptions, our prospects, our pleasures
Kahil Gibran
Your soul is oftentimes the battlefield upon which your reason and your judgement wage war against your passion.
Two Minds
Man has two windows to his mind: through one he can see his own self as it is, through the other, he can see what it ought to be. It is our task to analyze and explore the body, the brain and the mind of man separately; but if we stop here, we derive no benefit despite our scientific knowledge. It is necessary to know about the evil effects of…
Choices
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Nothing could be closer to the truth. But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back….
Safe Places
Being Safe Places for Others When we are free from the need to judge or condemn, we can become safe places for people to meet in vulnerability and take down the walls that separate them. When people realise that we have no hidden agendas or unspoken intentions, that we are not trying to gain any profit for ourselves, and that our only desire is for peace and reconciliation, they may…
Subjective Reality
The eyes can’t see What the mind doesn’t know
Consciousness
Consciousness THE DRAMA OF THE HUMAN CONDITION COMES SOLELY FROM CONSCIOUSNESS. OF COURSE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS REVELATIONS ALLOW US TO CREATE A BETTER LIFE FOR SELF AND OTHERS, BUT THE PRICE WE PAY FOR THE BETTER LIFE IS HIGH. IT IS NOT JUST THE PRICE OF RISK AND DANGER AND PAIN. IT IS THE PRICE OF KNOWING RISK, DANGER, AND PAIN. WORSE EVEN: IT IS THE PRICE OF KNOWING WHAT…