Najmee's Blog

Contemplation

Tomy Hendarman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:39:24 +0000

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)

Temptation

Tomy Hendarman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:33:47 +0000

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Oscar Wilde – Irish (1854-1900)

Hard Work

Tomy Hendarman — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:09:54 +0000

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)

Self Light

Tomy Hendarman — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:11:36 +0000

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)

All Too Familiar

Tomy Hendarman — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:29:37 +0000

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Australia/England (1889 – 1951)

Beware of The Mask

Tomy Hendarman — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:55:43 +0000

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, USA. (1922 – 2007)

Different Selves

Tomy Hendarman — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:48:19 +0000

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)

Revealing

Tomy Hendarman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:41:32 +0000

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

Freedom

Tomy Hendarman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:53:47 +0000

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