To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
When I was a Caterpillar, I was beautiful, profound, and aware. Yet only once I basked in my Cocoon, And reflected upon… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“I mistook non-conformity for freedom and in so doing found myself anything but free. For it is in conformity to one's true… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“This life is a dream—sometimes a dream of beauty— sometimes a terrifying nightmare. We will all wake from this dream eventually. Spiritual… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
In my path, three things are really important. One is associating with people who inspire us with their positive influence. The company… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom, and it will be a hundred times better for everyone. Give up kindness, renounce morality, and men… — Tao Te Ching Copy Share Image
“In the material world below, she always felt lonely and there was nobody to understand her true nature. She always knew that… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
“Now I am experiencing the Clear Light of objective reality. Nothing is happening, nothing ever has happened or ever will happen. My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I cannot help feeling that the final explanation of the state of the Church today is a defective sense of sin and… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There are always going to be people in life that will lead you to the darkness if you let them, so keep… — JSV Copy Share Image
“All these small ideas that I am a man or a woman, Sick or healthy, strong or weak Or that I hate… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front… — h.e. davey Copy Share Image
“Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what… — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
“To be anxious wasn’t shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life’s contradictions, more receptive to the… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
“I am choosing the bear every time unless we can explicitly state that it is in a man's true nature to do… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
“No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Travel deep inside yourself without the baggage of conditioning. Be an explorer, have patience and eventually your true nature will surface. You… — Marco R Capristo Copy Share Image
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“His weapons were kindness, attention, and compassion—and when victory was assured, he discarded them like spent casings, and his true nature emerged.” — Liv Constantine Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result?… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
