SOULLAB

"God is Nearer to me
than I Am to myself."
Meister Eckhart
“The Force is what gives a Jedi his power.
It’s an energy field created by all living things,
it surrounds us and penetrates us.
It binds the galaxy together."
-Obi Wan Kenobi
"I must create a system
or be enslaved by another mans;
I will not reason and compare:
my business is to create."
-William Blake
"You never change things
by fighting the existing reality.
To change something,
build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
“To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.”
-Lao Tzu
"This is love-
to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet."
--Jelaluddin Rumi
"When I let go of What I Am,
I Become What I Might Be.
- Lao Tzu
"What Lies behind us
and what lies before us
are small matters
compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each today, well-lived,
makes yesterday a dream of happiness
and each tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look, therefore, to this one day,
for it and it alone is life."
- Sanskrit poem
"As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung
"The balanced energy is the birthing energy.
I used to say that the birthing energy was all feminine
-- it’s not.
You have to push and you have to be.
It’s such a potent example
of the dance of the feminine and masculine together,
the dance that is the creative energy of life!"
-- Joyce Irvine
“You got to look at things
with the eye in your heart,
not with the eye in your head.”
-- Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people
"The dream is the small hidden door
in the deepest and most intimate sanctum
of the soul,
which opens to that primeval cosmic night
that was soul long before there was conscious ego
and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl Jung
"As long as I am this or that,
I am not all things." -- Meister Eckhart
"If there is a sin against life,
it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life,
as in hoping for another life,
and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
-- Albert Camus
"Consciousness is the basis of all life
and the field of all possibilities.
Its nature is to expand and unfold
its full potential.
The impulse to evolve is thus
inherent in the very nature of life."
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The greatest discovery of my generation
is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitudes." -- William James
“There's no reality except the one contained within us.
That's why so many people live an unreal life.
They take images outside them for reality
and never allow the world within them to assert itself.” -
Hesse
"It is our basic right
to be a happy person,
happy family, and
eventually a happy world.
That should be our goal."
-- Dalai Lama
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
-- Lewis Carroll
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things
before breakfast."
-- Lewis Carroll
"Your theory is crazy,
but it's not crazy enough
to be true."
-- Niels Bohr
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned
with the human problem all one's life and find at the end
that one has no more to offer by way of advice
than 'Try to be a little kinder'."
- ALDOUS HUXLEY
"The future is not some place we are going,
but one we are creating.
The paths are not to be found,
but made.
And the activity of making them changes
both the maker and their destination."
-- John Schaar
"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances
will always remain victims
unless they develop a greater vision for their lives."
-- Stedman Graham
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"What is here is also there;
what is there,
is also here.
Who sees multiplicity
but not the one indivisible Self
must wander on and on
from death to death."
-- Katha Upanishad
"As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung
"The man who, being really on the Way,
falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence,
turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort
and encourages his old self to survive.
Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully
and inexorably help him to risk himself,
so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it,
thus making of it a ‘raft that leads to the far shore’.
Only to the extent that man exposes himself
over and over again to annihilation,
can that which is indestructible arise within him.
In this lies the dignity of daring.
Thus, the aim of practice is not to develop an attitude
which allows a man to acquire a state of harmony and peace
wherein nothing can ever trouble him.
On the contrary, practice should teach him
to let himself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered—
that is to say it should enable him
to dare to let go his futile hankering after harmony,
surcease from pain, and a comfortable life
in order that he may discover,
in doing battle with the forces that oppose him,
that which awaits him beyond the world of opposites.
The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life,
and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world.
When this is possible, meditation itself becomes the means
by which we accept and welcome the demons
which arise from the unconscious
—a process very different from the practice
of concentration on some object as a protection against such forces."
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
- From 'The Way of Transformation'