“Be slow to agree or disagree.” -The Thomasine Illuminists
"Tao that is displayed is not Tao" -Chang Tzu
"Always it is your state that the nature world responds to, not what you say, not what you do, but what you are" -The Devas
"The fact of a person being a gentleman is as much an ineluctable factor as any possible spiritual experience; in fact, it is possible, even probable, that a man may be misled by the enthusiasm of an illumination, and if he should find apparant conflict between his spiritual duty and his duty to honour, it is almost sure evidence that a trap is being laid for him and he should unhesitatingly stick to the course which ordinary decency indicates" -Aleister Crowley
"It's easy to be tempted away from your path under the illusion that you are finding it. But as [Austin Osman] Spare said, 'it was the straying that found the path direct'." -Joel Biroco
"An evil deed, when done, does not-like ready milk-come out right away. It follows the fool, smouldering like a fire hidden in ashes."
-Dhammapada
"Few are those who see with their own eyes, and feel with their own hearts."
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods".
"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" -Albert Einstein
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness. -Proverbs 26:11
“When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them” -Eliphas Levi
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is steadily subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected. It is, moreover, liable to burst forth in a moment of unawareness." -Carl Jung
and on a related note... "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore, not popular. -Carl Jung
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" -Jesus Christ
"The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries." -Lao Tzu
"Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft." -Baz Luhrmann
" To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. " -George Orwell
“If you’re studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all… but philosophy, you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.” - Steve Martin
"Blessed is the day when your world shatters for you can see your future beckoning from behind the ruins." - Ingrid Coffin
"Are you bathed in silver, or drowned in gold?" -J. Balance
