“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.” PeopleMenSoundForgetMusicGraceTroubleAnxietyMusic IsDevilInventionDevicesWord Of GodCheerfulRestlessWrathGrace Of GodSorrowfulImpuritySound Of Music Author:Martin Luther
“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.” WorldMeanPainLastsTurnsForeverDeeper Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.” KnowsDoeDiesGoalSecretBehindsTeacherOne ThingTeachingCleanDoctrineWanderContinuingSublime Author:Hermann Hesse
“I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.” IfsKnowsWorldFirstsWisdomSeeingMysteryYogaFirst TimeDoctrinePupilsSeeing The WorldSiddharthaVedas Book:Siddhartha Source: Siddhartha
“As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do” WantLifeInspirationalPassionCan DoWhat You Want Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.” WorldEyeTodayBornIllusionTongueAccidentsAwakenedValueless Author:Hermann Hesse
“It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.” KnowsNeedsHeartChildrenLongEyeRememberWealthPleasureMy HeartTasteLong TimeGood ThingsHearingStomachWorldlyWorldly Pleasures Author:Hermann Hesse
“No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.” MenFoundGoalAcceptingPathDivineEternalDoctrineSeekersSiddhartha Book:Siddhartha Source: Siddhartha
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.” IfsI CanTwoMatterLyingPurposeCausesStepsTenDrawsHorizonSlipsRetreatUtopiaSteps Forward Author:Eduardo Galeano
“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.” ThinkingMenGivingMayHappensIndividualLeftStrongMoralDoubtDignityValuableTrustedUnitsCoattails Book:East of Eden Source: East of Eden
