All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Interpretation
Finding truth requires deeper exploration than simply identifying errors.
This quote highlights the challenge of seeking truth as opposed to merely recognizing mistakes. Errors are often evident and can be spotted on the surface, while uncovering deeper truths necessitates a willingness to delve into complexity and confront uncomfortable realities.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of truth vs. perception.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect _x000D_ harmonyof the body, senses, mind _x000D_ and intellect, reason, consciousness _x000D_ and self. When all these are integrated _x000D_ that is true yoga.
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