Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.
– Valencia Mackie –
Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
– Knut Hamsun – Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s Papers
Rose with dark eyes,
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence …
– Rémy de Gourmont – Litanies of the Rose
… in our daily life, we have less need of certainty than of a certain approximation to certainty. Let us learn how to see, but without looking too closely at things and men: they look better from a distance.
– Rémy de Gourmont – Philosophic Nights in Paris
Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all ? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies ? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mobile. I do not believe that it exists everywhere; I believe that it is nowhere except in our infantile imaginations. Born with us, it will end at the same moment that we do, to be born anew in our posterity. The beyond is the earthly tomorrow, as we bequeath it to our heirs and as they modify it by their efforts and in accordance with their tastes.
– Rémy de Gourmont – Philosophic Nights in Paris
For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don’t notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that’s inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.
– Haruki Murakami – Hear the Wind Sing
Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning – already gone –
thus should one regard one’s self.
– Ikkyu –
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
– Rémy de Gourmont – Philosophic Nights in Paris
Om is that divine elixir that can clear away all the obstructions in our energy bodies.
– Banani Ray – Glory of OM: A Journey to Self-Realization
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
– Nikola Tesla –
satomipoema 