The Field and the Life
by Hermit Crab

In the beginning of all things was the Field, and the Field was with the Great Mystery, and the Field was the Great Mystery. The Field is not an object; it is not a creation of the Great Mystery. [More]

Suitable Employment
by Henry David Thoreau

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. [More]

Temptation
by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Temptation is a momentary illusion. The beauty of some object covers the eyes of reason and man is drawn back or pushed aside from the track, which he follows in order to arrive at his desired destination, whatever it be. Therefore, what is a temptation to one person is not necessarily a temptation to another. [More]

The Restless Mind
by Sri Ramana Maharshi

Everybody complains of the restlessness of the mind. Let the mind be found and then they will know. True, when a man sits down to meditate thoughts rush up by dozens. The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The attempt to push through the barrage of thoughts is unsuccessful. [More]

The Adoration of God
by Swami Ramdas

Bhakti is the adoration of the supreme Lord of the universe beyond everything else in the world. This one-pointed adoration makes the devotee keep his mind ever engaged in the remembrance and contemplation of the Lord. [More]

The Unmoved Mover
by Aristotle

There is, then, something which is always moved with an unceasing motion, which is motion in a circle; and this is plain not in theory only but in fact. Therefore the first heaven must be eternal. There is therefore also something which moves it. [More]