“The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”
— Simone Weil
“The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.” — Simone Weil
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
for people were nourished by the illusion that the world was merely what they saw.
Umair Haque • The Lamp and the Light: A Parable About Finding Life's Purpose
Many of us have made a virtue out of deprivation.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].