Tag: Stones on the Path

He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
~ John Ruskin

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless.
~ T.S. Eliot

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
~ Carl Gustav Jung

And so, for the first time in my life perhaps I took the lamp, and went down to my inmost self. But as I moved further and further from the conventional certainties, I became aware that I was losing contact with myself. At each step of the descent a new person was disclosed within me … and when I had to stop my exploration because the path faded, I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and out of it came–arising I know not whence–the current which I dare to call my life.
~ Teilhard de Chardin

To be awake is to be alive. I have never met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, by by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
~ Henry David Thoreau

A sage has no self, but there is nothing that is not himself.
~ Sekito

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
~Feodor Dostoyevsky

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.
~ Verlyn Klinkenborg, NY Times

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise…. Deeds exist, but no doer can be found.
~ Lankavatara Sutra

The trouble is that you think you have time.
~ Zen master