“There is a fine line between challenging yourself and overwhelming yourself.”
“As you dig your teeth into your assumptions, your teeth become sharper. You can dig deeper. You become what the world needs simply by helping yourself. It’s not easy, but it is worth it. The truth, as they say, hurts. But they also say it sets you free.”
“The vast majority of adults have never met themselves.”
“Self-awareness is like an onion. There are multiple layers to it, and the more you peel them back, the more likely you re going to start crying at inappropriate times.”
“Through the perspective of complete awareness, the world is orderly (vyavasthit), and through the perspective that lacks awareness, it appears to be disorderly (avyavasthit).”
“Awareness of what is beneficial and harmful is that whereby one does not take any entanglements along with him.”
“I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other s Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair No countryfar enough to hide your loss.”
“No one cares about us but ourselves, Anthony,” she said one day. “It d be ridiculous for me to go about pretending I felt any obligations toward the world, and as for worrying what people think about me, I simply don t, that s all.”
“Seek not to know where the path may lead, only to keep your feet upon it.”
“Darkness holds eternal sway over he who cannot first find the light within himself.”
“La estricta realidad me aburre, y el arte me parece hábil, pero nunca eficaz, nunca legítimo. Tan sólo un ingenuo recurso que ciertos tipos desengañados, sinvergüenzas o melancólicos usan para mentirse o, lo que es peor aún, para mentirme. Y no quiero mentirme. Quiero saber todo acerca de mi mismo.”
“So, lost, erased, you seek a lifetime s days for it And dig deep to find the sweet instructions there Put by when God first circuited and printed thee to life: Go hence! do this! do that! do yet another thing! This self is yours! Be it! And what is that?! you cry at hearthing breast, Is there no rest? No, only journeying to be yourself. And even as the Birthmark vanishes, in seashell ear Now fading to a sigh, His last words send you in the world: Not mother, father, grandfather are you. Be not another. Be the self I signed you in your blood. I swarm your flesh with you. Seek that. And, finding, be what no one else can be.”
“I circumnavigate each cell in you Your merest molecule is right and true Look there for destinies indelible and fine And rare. Ten thousand futures share your blood each instant; Each drop of blood a cloned electric twin of you.”
“No Moses, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Nanak, Plato, Socrates or Naskar can give you liberty. No Bible, Vedas, Quran, Republic, Meditations, Analects or Principia Humanitas can give you liberty. You need to get it yourself, or else it s not true liberty.”
“I am not the hope, neither is any other historical, imaginary or mythical savior. What am I! Nothing. As far as your life is concerned, I am no more valuable and holy than the particles of dust under your feet. So, I have nothing to give you. Only you my friend, can define, understand and manifest religion within yourself.”
“No man can achieve a praiseworthy life unless he listens to the whisper which is heard by him alone.”
“If you would command anything, be willing to cause anything.”