Painting by John William Waterhouse: “Echo and Narcissus” (1903) “Know Thyself” “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for…
Category: self exploration/ knowledge
A quote on self realization by Sri Ramana
God dwells in you, as you, and you don’t have to ‘do’ anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “open the letter of the body’s life” by Rumi
Open the letter of the body’s life. Inside the words, this body, your life, is a letter to the king of the universe. Go to a private place and open it and read to see if the words are right. If they are not, start another! And do not think it is easy to open…
Poems on ageing: “Now I become myself” by May Sarton
Now I become myself Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, “Hurry, you will be dead before—” (What? Before you reach the morning? Or the end of the poem…
POEMS: “Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge” by Yunus Emre
“Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge” Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul. If you have failed to understand yourself, Then all of your reading has missed its call. What is the purpose of reading those books? So that Man can know the…
Essay on: “Know thyself” (“Temet Nosce”) by Amira
“Know thyself” (“Temet Nosce”) The ancient Greek aphorism “Know thyself” is one of the Delphic maxims,(though we find similar teachings going back to ancient Egypt and Asia) the first of three, inscribed on a column in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi (Greece). It’s given as “Nosce te ipsum” or…
Quotes: A quantum physics point of view on time and space, and consciousness…
In essence, the ideas of space and time are creations of the mind that serve as the screen upon which we project the contents of the depths of our mind, both conscious and unconscious. Being constructs of consciousness as well as the receptacles for its projections, space and time serve as consciousness’s own way of…
On “Solitude”…. by Zat Rana and Rainer Maria Rilke post from Mystic Meandering
“Solitude” by Zat Rana “All of man’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone…” – Blaise Pascal According to Pascal, we fear the silence of existence, we dread the boredom and instead choose aimless distractions, and we can’t help but run from the problems of our emotions into the…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Commit” – Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Compromiso”
Commit I commit to expressing my higher Self. Today I resolve to carefully observe my thoughts and actions and notice where I can make improvements. I begin by being more aware of my judgments and more attentive to what others are saying, perhaps by being more forgiving of perceived shortcomings or errors of my own….
