Glenn Davisson

“If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.”
― Robin Skynner

“You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”
― Rumi

“The human being is given by Nature little more energy than what is needed to maintain the species; to reproduce and to live out our (very short) spans. But if we want to be fit for the journey up and out of the limits of ordinary life, we have to learn not to waste energy. Which we do by busying ourselves too much with material things, and by using our minds in wasteful and damaging ways. You will have seen that I am describing concepts familiar to us from religions, put here in a different context, rescued from being 'sins' or sources of guilt, reintroduced, simply, as tools. It is not 'wicked' to eat and drink too much, not a 'sin' to be envious, but gluttony makes 'the Way' difficult; and thoughts of enmity keep the mind in a seethe, making subtler inputs impossible. And, besides, laws operate that we have not been taught about, whether we have had the benefits of religions or not. Thoughts of anger, jealousy, enmity, revenge, bring retribution. There is nothing theoretical about this: slowly you learn to see patterns where before you saw nothing, because you were over-emotional.”
― Doris Lessing, The Doris Lessing Reader