Daily Quote Archives

October 2021
  1. October 01 Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition.
  2. October 02 From the known you cannot possibly see the unknown;
  3. October 03 Loneliness is the awareness of complete isolation; and are not our activities self-enclosing?
  4. October 04 For the speaker attachment is much more important than detachment.
  5. October 05 Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula?
  6. October 06 We have reduced the vastness of all this to some petty little reactions.
  7. October 07 What is insight? It is: to perceive something instantly, which must be true, logical, sane, rational.
  8. October 08 To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them;
  9. October 09 Conflict and confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people, things and ideas
  10. October 10 Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
  11. October 11 Personally, to the speaker, there is no psychological evolution;
  12. October 12 You think you are the center of this beautiful earth.
  13. October 13 The self, the "me," is a network of complex desires, each desire having its own impetus and aim, often in opposition to other hopes and pursuits.
  14. October 14 Criticism is only of value in so far as it trains your observation so that it can eventually be turned on yourself.
  15. October 15 Instead of addressing heterogeneous crowds in many places and dazzling and confounding them with your brilliance and subtlety, why do you not start a community or colony and create a reference for your way of thinking?