“I don’t think it’s about finding happiness, but rather, finding redemption — finding the ability to redeem yourself, to give yourself
back to yourself. And that’s not something you find once and then you’re done; you don’t reach some magical point one day where the whole puzzle falls into place. Every day is the process of [...]
“When a man is crucified, when he dies to himself, the heart opens up like a flower.”
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the [...]
“I am thinking of the moment something dies and how we instinctively know it. And of how we try not to know what we know because we do not yet understand how we are to negotiate change.”
“Modern morality consists in accepting the standards of one’s age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standards of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.”
“To be good is to be in harmony with one’s self [...] Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.”
“To be in harmony is to be in a conscious and loving relationship with what is. Here, there is no willing or desiring of particulars, for that would imply a fixation on an illusory separate part of the flowing
totality in which we live. Harmony means to have a musical relationship with the world, to enter [...]