From John Donne: “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”
Tag Archives: world
Quote of the day 07/08/25
From Alan Watts: “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
Quote of the day 05/25/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
Quote of the day 04/10/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Everything is bathed in love like the ether. The world is like a spider’s web; touch one part and the whole quivers.”
Quote of the day 02/06/25
From Chomei: “The triple world is but one Mind. Outside the Mind there is no other reality; Mind, Buddha, all Sentient Creatures, – these three are not different things.”
Quote of the day 02/04/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.”
Quote of the day 01/07/25
From William Blake: “We become what we behold.”
Quote of the day 11/17/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Daydreams transport the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”
Quote of the day 09/24/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Quote of the day 06/29/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of things. It can have no cause to favor certain enterprises over others. The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.”