Week 2017-37

[#imagination, #human nature]
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." (Francis Bacon)

[#life, #duality]
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville)

[#beliefs, #confidence]
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." (Marie Curie)

[#values, #strength]
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course." (Michelangelo)

[#spirituality, #simplicity]
"To realise the constancy and steadiness in your life is to realise the deep nature of the universe. This realisation is not dependent on any transitory internal or external condition, rather it is an expression of one’s own immutable spiritual nature. The only way to attain the Universal Way is to maintain the integral virtues of the constancy, steadiness and simplicity in one’s daily life." (Lao Tzu)

[#knowledge, #values]
"Knowledge is the highest good, truth the supreme value, all the rest is secondary and subordinate." (Aldous Huxley)

[#truth, #goals]
"Approximate truth is the only truth attainable, but at least one must strive for that, and not wade off into arbitrary falsehood." (George Eliot)

[#simplicity, #values]
"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity." (Ludwig Wittgenstein

[#facts, #wisdom]
"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense..." (Aldous Huxley)

[#journeys, #spirituality]
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." (René Descartes)

[#journeys, #truth]
"Keep the company of those who seek the truth - run from those who have found it." (VÁCLAV HAVEL)

Week 2017-11

[#growth, #reality]
"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven... Build, therefore, your own world." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”, 1836)

[#happiness, #quest]
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost." (H. Jackson Browne)

[#knowledge, #chaos]
"Don't worry that your life is turning upside down.
How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" (Rumi)

[#confidence, #knowledge]
"Confidence is not about being always right, but always knowing what to do when things go wrong." (Anon)

[#learning]
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” (Thomas H. Huxley)

[#education]
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." (Abbe Dimnet, "Art of Thinking", 1928)

[#love, #wisdom]
"Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love." (Shams Tabrizi)

[#learning, #truth]
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." (Antisthenes)

[#education, #inquiry]
"The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." (David L Finn)

[#learning, #perception]
"Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning." (Peter Senge)