People
People connected with this theme.
Aquinas Thomas
1225 – 1274 Philosophy
Baba Sathya
1926 – 2011 Philosophy
Bauniyya Aisha
1402 – 1475 Poetry
Blake William
1757 – 1827 Poetry
Buddha
-563 – -483 Philosophy
Dante
1265 – 1321 Poetry
Donne John
1572 – 1631 Poetry
Gibran Khalil
1883 – 1931 Poetry
Hafez
1317 – 1392 Poetry
Iqbal Muhammad
1877 – 1938 Literature
Krishnamurti
1895 – 1986 Philosophy
Laozi
-575 – -500 Philosophy
Milton John
1608 – 1674 Poetry
Nanak Guru
1469 – 1539 Philosophy
Plotinus
204 – 270 Philosophy
Rumi Jalaluddin
1207 – 1273 Poetry
Tagore
1861 – 1941 PoetryBook Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
Siddhartha,
Hesse Hermann · 1922
“When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing …
The Antichrist
Nietzsche Friedrich · 1888
The first pages
1.
—Let us look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans—we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar, in his …
Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Blake William
As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs; thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark i …
Last night as I was sleeping,
Machado Antonio · 1907
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk …
Leave This Chanting and Singing
Tagore · 1910
Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!
Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller …