lights on the path

What a mystery the way things act on us, like secret messages just to you as you sit in the dark.

Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity.

despair is the result of each earnest attempt to understand and vindicate human life. Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding and to fulfil their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.

The sphere of our possible intellectual knowledge is thus strictly conditioned by the limits of our own personality. On this basis, not the ends of the earth, but the external termini of our own sensory nerves, are the termini of our explorations: and to "know oneself" is really to know one's universe.

There is an underlying joy and peace that can be known and that doesn’t end. When you can practice being yourself and going beyond a limiting story, you create the conditions for transformation and begin walking a path of freedom.