Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
Each person’s only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.
Actions have consequences… first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
When you know the knower within, you don’t need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don’t need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one’s self.
The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
Action will
delineate and
define you.
delineate and
define you.
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
All is to be doubted.
I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That’s real beauty to me.
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.
Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don’t know yourself you don’t know anything.
It’s a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
