“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.” BelieveDoeSoulReasonGodMy OwnOpinionSawsTruth IsPrejudiceAppearanceReasoningConvincing Author:Sri Aurobindo
“As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.” PeopleKnowsWorldSoulSufferingSickAppearanceSurfaceVery Happy Author:Frederick Lenz
“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.” IfsWayWellsLooksHeartMaySoulMatterStatesLastsHappinessViewsEnemyIssuesSawsSadnessConditionsDependsEssentialsDespairHarderMereProsperityAppearanceDeeperChiefsSensationsDistractionInwardObstructionWay To Success Book:Happiness Source: Happiness
“The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.” MindWellsHeartIdeasSoulRealityEyeImaginationObjectsConnectionsSightRelationAppearanceInsightMannersGifted Book:Character and characteristic men Source: Character and characteristic men
“That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.” SoulBraveAppearanceTreasureChestsGloomy Author:John Dryden
“The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.” MenSoulEyePassionColorPrejudiceAppearanceObservationYellowJaundice Author:Isaac Watts