You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.
– Arlene Blum

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
–Henri Bergson

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
–Voltaire

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
–Demosthenes

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
–Aldous Huxley

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
–Charles DuBois

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
–Pearl S. Buck

According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, the idea of the Zahir comes from Islamic tradition and is thought to have arisen at some point in the eighteenth century. Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come in contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.
–Faubourg Saint-Peres, Encyclopedia of the Fantastic (1953)

As with yoga, this culture has taken a sublime, complicated mystical system, designed to birth the divine, and turned it into a form of decadent entertainment.
–Andrew Harvey, author of The Sun at Midnight

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
–John C. Maxwell