purpose
To find the idea for which I can live and die
“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding […]
Letter to a Young Poet
“But perhaps you have hit upon the ideal of being a poet because you see a poet as an original, a perceptive and a pious […]
Inner and outer purpose have not merged
“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the […]
The great man is the play-actor of his own ideals
A few quotes from an article I came across on Medium (https://medium.com/@dmoore629/climbing-the-ladder-of-selves-86ddaacf72bd) “The philosopher Colin Wilson, in his book New Pathways of Psychology (1972), used […]
The Outsider seeks a meaning and purpose that the everyday world cannot provide
“The Outsider is someone who sees “too deep and too much” and that most of what he sees is “chaos.” He or she lives in […]
Search for meaning
Some quotes from A Confession, Leo Tolstoy: My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help […]
Your true nature lies immeasurably high above you
“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has elevated your soul, what […]
Subjective fulfilment in the world
The subjective can be so over-emphasized that the individual’s inner world becomes entirely divorced from reality. In that case we call him mad. On the […]
You need not teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree
“You need not, and in fact cannot, teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree, but when given a chance, its intrinsic potentialities will […]
I’ll make my own sandwiches
“Sands Point, Port Washington, was a prosperous, upper-middle-class community. The ethnic boy from the city [Cassavetes] was uncomfortable there. The town’s conservatism was alien and […]
