Itself - Quotes
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
If life in itself were a valuable possession and decidedly preferable to non-existence, the gate need not be occupied by such terrible guards as death and its terrors. But who would persevere in life as it is, if death were less frightful? And who could even so much as endure the thought of death, if life were a joy?
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
At some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future. As if figuring it out will somehow cushion the blow.
But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and our wildest hopes. But one thing is certain: When it finally reveals itself the future is never the way we imagined it.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.