The Door

"I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."

---Morpheus, in the 1999 movie "The Matrix"

Human Freedoms

"The last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way."

---Viktor Frankl

See?

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."

---Huang-Po (China)

photo: Sadhus, "The Naked Saints of India"

Perfection

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to it's nakedness."

---Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Walls

"Most of us live behind a wall or smoke-screen which in some degree hides our true thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, likes and dislikes. But the question of self-disclosure goes deeper than mere willingness or reluctance. People often cannot disclose themselves, even if they would, because they do not know their real selves--what they really want, feel or believe."

---Scientific American magazine, May 2008. A reprint of an article published in May 1958.

The Questions

"Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language...live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

---Rainer Marie Rilke

Radical

"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us."

---Jean-Paul Sartre

photo: sadhus, "The Naked Saints of India"

Temple

"Here in this body are the sacred rivers; here are the sun and the moon, as well as all the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body."

---Saraha Doha

Obstacles

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

---Ralph Blum

Sexy

"From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it."

---Bette Davis

Indecent

"Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!--ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent."

---Walt Whitman

Inner Taste

"With the gradual awakening of an inner taste of Tantra, faith grows. Some people are easily inspired by these exotic practices, but to genuinely experience their potential takes time and work. Great patience is needed, as Tantra requires repeated practice with results that grow slowly with time."

---Rob Preece, "The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra"

Dreams

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird
That cannot fly."

---Langston Hughes