In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into quotes by Rumi, Thomas Merton, and Carl Jung
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.” Thomas Merton
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”- Carl Jung
Quotes of the week-
Monday-
“The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
- Julia Margaret Cameron
Tuesday-
"Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.”
- Karl Weick
Wednesday-
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
- Rumi
Thursday-
"In the field of activity, it is not desirable to create stress and strain by attempting control either from within or from without. Let everyone proceed naturally, complementing [transcendental consciousness] with the activity of daily routine, and so be sure to win fulfillment.”
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Friday-
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
- Carl Jung
Saturday-
“Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life, as well as your happiness, depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”
- Laurence J. Peter
Sunday-
“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. ”
- Thomas Merton