"One comes to be of just such stuff as that on which the mind is set." Upanishads
"We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness." the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world." Reginald Blyth.
"I think a person who takes a job in order to live- that is to say, (just) for the money- has turned himself into a slave." Joseph Campbell
"A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way." Titus Burkhardt
"Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art." Theologia Germanica
"Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied." Chuang Tzu
"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own." Carl Jung
"Art always has something of the unconscious about it." D.T. Suzuki
"The Tao is near and people seek it far away." Menicus
"It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!" Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
"Facts, to become poetic, must be fused with being." Gerald Sykes
"To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form." Meister Eckhart
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." Albert Camus
"The Tao's principle is spontaneity." Lao Tzu
"Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?" Goethe
"But if I do not strive, who will?" Chuang Tzu
"Don't listen to friends when the friend inside you says "do this." Gandhi
"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that." Joseph Campbell
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