It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal
Antoine de Saint-Exupery – French (1900-1944)
3 Mar
Contemplation
24 Feb
Temptation
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Oscar Wilde – Irish (1854-1900)
20 Feb
Hard Work
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot.
Robert Townsend USA (1948)
17 Feb
Self Light
Self light glows through your dark skin, feels warm on your skin, as if you are sitting by the palace heart.
Self light knows nothing of dark cells, organs, only guessed at, like life in distant colonies the king has never visited.
Gabriella Venditti, Italy (1976)
14 Feb
All Too Familiar
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Australia/England (1889 – 1951)
14 Feb
Beware of The Mask
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, USA. (1922 – 2007)
13 Feb
Different Selves
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James – U.S.A. (1842 – 1910)
10 Feb
Revealing
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), Swiss
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931), Lebanon
15 Dec
Freedom
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948), India
When freedom is not an inner idea which imparts strength to our activities and breadth to our creations, when it is merely a thing of external circumstance, it is like an open space to one who is blindfolded.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941), India
Valuing freedom of thought above all things, as the only way of reaching at some future time that Wisdom, of which every Theosophist ought to be enamoured, we recognize the right to the same freedom in our foes as in our friends.
H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891), Russia
