plants vs gurus

"Avoid gurus. Follow plants." - Terence.

enlightenment

"Enlightenment doesn't occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the self into the conscious personality." - Carl Jung

yoga

"Yoga is nothing but a total experience of human life, it is the science of the integral man." -Jaques S. Masui

source of happiness

"my happiness did indeed arise from the same secret as the happiness in dreams; it arose from the freedom to experience everything imaginable simultaneously, to exchange outward and inward easily, to move Time and Space about like scenes in a theater" - hermann

empathy

"A 'we,' not an 'I,' is the subject of the empathizing. Not through the feeling of oneness, but through empathizing, do we experience others. The feeling of oneness and the enrichment of our own experience become possible through empathy." - Edith

the artist

"The artist should be blind to 'accepted' or 'unaccepted' form, deaf to the precepts and demands of his time.
His eyes should be always directed toward his own inner life, and his ears turned to the voice of internal necessity.
Then he will size upon all permitted means, and just as easily upon all forbidden means.
This is the only way of giving expression to mystical necessity.
All means are moral if they are internally necessary.
All means are sinful if they did not spring from the source of internal necessity." - Kandinsky

when the external supports threaten to collapse

"When religion, science, and morality are shaken (the last by the mighty hand of Nietzsche), when the external supports threaten to collapse, then man's gaze turns away from the external toward himself." - Kandinsky