To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
