„Behind the stream of my mind and body, behind the stream of my race and all mankind, behind the stream of plants and animals, I watch with trembling the Invisible, treading on all visible things and ascending.Behind his heavy and blood-splattered feet I hear all living things being trampled on and crushed.His face is without laughter, dark and silent, beyond joy and sorrow, beyond hope.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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„Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.“
— Groucho Marx
„I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.“
— Jimmy Carter
„I feel in my heart all commotions and all contradictions, the joys and sorrows of life. But I struggle to subdue them to a rhythm superior to that of the mind, harsher than that of my heart — to the ascending rhythm of the Universe.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Certainly after all you are right, damn well right - even making allowance for hope, the thing is to accept the probably disastrous reality. I am hoping to throw myself once again wholly in my work which has got behind hand.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter. There one perceives all created things — solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, gods, men, animals, plants, bacteria — as forms of consciousness, just as a man can close his eyes and realize that he exists, even though his body is invisible to his physical eyes and is present only as an idea.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda