A butterfly
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man. – Albert Einstein
One of the main functions of formalized religions is to protect people against a direct experience of God. – Carl Jung
Our ideas of God tell us more about ourselves than about Him. – Thomas Merton
God created the world in such a way that he still creates it without ceasing. All that belongs to the past and future is remote and alien to God. – Meister Eckhart
Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now; the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. – Bhaddekaratta Sutta
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?…Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding….Smile with your whole being. – Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe that man must get rid of illusions that enslave and paralyze him; that he must become aware of the reality inside and outside of him in order to create a world which needs no illusions. Freedom and independence can be achieved only when the chains of illusion are broken. – Erich Fromm
On the day you see the light of your own true Self, you’ll rejoice! But if you only see forms which from the beginning were in you, and don’t die to them or know them, how can you stand the light? – From the gospel of Thomas
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare