From R.H. Blyth: “We are to ask fervently, to seek passionately, to knock madly – but it must be for nothing. When our self is all asked, sought, knocked away, everything is given, found, opened.”
Tag Archives: self
Quote of the day 03/02/25
From Francis Bacon: “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”
Quote of the day 02/16/25
From Rumi: “Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.”
Quote of the day 02/14/25
From Rumi: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Quote of the day 02/13/25
From Rumi: “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
Quote of the day 02/12/25
From Rumi: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Quote of the day 01/26/25
From Nagarjuna: “Just as it is knownThat an image of one’s face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of “I” existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe “I” does not at all exist as its own reality.”
Quote of the day 01/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.”
Quote of the day 12/07/24
From Lao Tzu: “The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
Quote of the day 11/29/24
From Lao Tzu: “At the center of your beingyou have the answer;you know who you areand you know what you want.”
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