Here are todays quotes paired with art, because in this busy world, we rarely have time to reflect on the inner, the hidden, and the little known powerful aspects of our human condition.
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”
~ Sigmund Freud
"We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision."
~ Khalil Gibran
"In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Edgar Cayce
"The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground."
Confucius
"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."
G. I. Gurdjieff
"The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear."
G. I. Gurdjieff
With love,
Doc