A selection of sayings from Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy", on the elusiveness of what we most desire, the discipline of following one's own road, and the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
Rumi on grief as a garden of compassion, on finding God in one's own heart, and on the calling placed in every heart.
Patanjali, the ancient Indian philosopher and founder of yoga, on inspiration, the power of the mind, and how love and hatred alike return to their source.
Plotinus on inner beauty — how self-knowledge and the cultivation of virtue make a person beautiful, and why happiness lies in the fullest life of the Spirit.
Rumi's call to fall silent and listen, so that the voice of the Beloved can be heard within the heart.
A parable from S. N. Lazarev's book Diagnostics of Karma, in which a doctor is punished most harshly for easing suffering that illness was meant to teach.
A passage from Helena Roerich on the key to every mystery, which lies within each person.
