“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.” WorldStillsSoulDesireMy OwnWallMoralityDiversityMirrorsFallenAbstractSensationsMetaphysicsCentre Author:Fernando Pessoa
“The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...” MayVoiceMy OwnTraditionWesternRoundsMusicalExperimentsCentreMy ThoughtsEldersClassical Music Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.” WorldNeedsI CanImportantUniverseMy OwnHappenedMiddleHumourPrideCrossesImportant ThingsWoodsExperimentsRealisingCynicismCentreHubrisAutonomous Author:John Waters
“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.” MadeGodMy OwnKnowledgeSeeingHumilityYogaKneesAcknowledgeNothingnessCentreEasterRebirthSpiritual AwakeningReborn Author:Bede Griffiths
“I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.” MadeMy OwnExistenceSawsSeekingCentreSeeking God Author:Bede Griffiths