“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“I live in my dreams - that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not their own. That’s the difference.”
— Hermann Hesse
“If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense.”
— Tom Robbins
“Peace is not a matter of discussion. Shut up and, like the Buddha, sit down under the old tree.”
— Dainin Katagiri Roshi
“No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
— Ramana Maharshi
“The only way you can endure your pain is to let it be painful.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“You don’t have to change anybody; you just have to love them.”
— Maharaj-ji
“Guard the corridors of your mind carefully… as your most precious possession.”
— Alan Watt
“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master… Modern man protects himself against seeing his own split state by a system of compartments. Certain areas of outer life and of his own behavior are kept, as it were, in separate drawers and are never confronted with one another.”
— Carl Jung
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Detachment is not that you should own nothing but that nothing should own you.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
— Zhuangzi
“Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.”
— Kabir
“First realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right - mentally and emotionally. The physical will follow automatically.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Realization is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.”
— Ramana Maharshi