I used to think

“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The aim of life

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

If you do not

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.

~ Virginia Woolf

Our deepest wishes

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them.
We must learn to listen.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

The purpose of life

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience…"

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Yet mystery

"Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called Darkness... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding."

~Lao Tzu

If you knew

"If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?"

~ Robert Brault

There is one

There is one Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, which truly enlightens all readers.

~Hazrat Inayat Khan

When you

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you,
a joy.

— Rumi