Dan

“Contentment makes poor men rich,
Discontent makes rich men poor.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Thinking

Thinking is passing from the false to the true
and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
When the idea enters the mind,
it is a reminiscence of a former state,
and passes on to interpretation.

. . . He who sees by illumination
discerns God first in everything.
But he who sees by logic only,
and seeks to prove the necessary,
is bewildered and sometimes travels
backward in a circle, or is imprisoned
in a chain of proofs.
Fool! He seeks the dazzling sun
by the dim light of a candle in the desert.”
― Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari

“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

“For 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, Summer in Algiers