1/01/03

“Money is good but man is better, because he answers when you call.”
 West African tradition

26/01/03

“To know something is to be in union with it, to be within it, to approach it internally.
Remaining on the outside, you can never know something in its essence.
 To know things, you have not to dissect them but rather to link them with something else.”
Alassane Ndaw

28/02/03

“Modern culture in its advertising of sex,
 is actually in a misguided fashion advertising its longing for the sacred.”
Sobonfu Some

 
3/03/03

“To awaken the heart is to awaken the dormant soul”
 Mahatma Gandhi

26/04/03

“Is it possible for a mind that has splintered the structure of its thoughts to perceive the broad field of consciousness?
Krishnamurti

5/05/03

“There is always something in the self that is either overcompensating, pretending,
giving in or pushing too hard. The only way one can reach that and move it out is through ritual.”
Sobonfu Some

27/06/03

“To go from opinion to perception, from imagination to fact, from illusion to reality, 
from something that is not there, to something that is; that is the way forward.”
Swami Prajnanpad

23/07/03

“In the physical world there is an indestructible continuity of relations between hot and cold,
light and darkness, movement and repose, as well as between the bass and treble notes of a piano.
 This is because opposites do not bring confusion to the world; they bring harmony.”
 Rabindranath Tagore

29/08/03

“Selfishness in man is a beginning”
 Rabindranath Tagore

21/9/03

“If you do not compare yourself with another you will be what you really are.”
Krishnamurti

17/10/03

“Man is a synthesis of the universe, a crosssroads of life forces, the trysting-place of contradictory forces in perpetual motion. Only through initiation can a life be ordered and well filled.”
Elder Bambara initiate

24/11/03

“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.”
 Mahatma Gandhi.

10/12/03

“We have to learn to let go of our defences and any need to control.
We need to trust spirit absolutely for guidance.”
 Sobonfu Some

26/12/03

“The human voice can never reach the distance
 that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”
 Mahatma Gandhi