Jonathan Cai

“The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People call faith the true religious experience, but they do not stop to consider that actually it is a secondary phenomenon arising form the fact that something happened to us in the first place which instilled pistis into us — that is, trust and loyalty.”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato