From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan-Tanka that the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and make holy charms. Man knows that all healing plants are given by Wakan-Tanka, therefore they are holy. So too is the buffalo holy, because it is the gift of Wakan-Tanka.
-Flat Iron (Maza Blaska, Oglala Sioux Chief)
Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6
सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं
सत्येन पन्था विततो देवयानः ।
येनाक्रमन्त्यृषयो ह्याप्तकामा
यत्र तत् सत्यस्य परमं निधानम् ॥६॥
satyameva jayate nānṛtaṁ
satyena panthā vitato devayānaḥ
yenākramantyṛṣayo hyāptakāmā
yatra tat satyasya paramaṁ nidhānam
Truth alone triumphs; not falsehood.
Through truth the divine path is spread out
by which the sages whose desires have been completely fulfilled, reach
where that supreme treasure of Truth resides
The first sign we don’t know what we are doing is an obsession with numbers.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
