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Are we on the right road? Are we gaining knowledge? Are we approaching salvation? Or are we perhaps going in circles - we who thought to escape from the cycle?

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

On Teaching

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding. The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it. And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither. For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

On Self-Knowledge

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals.

Beautiful Seagull, free as a cloud. Reminding me of one of the books that have challenged my thinking and the way I looked at life: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Jonathan Seagull's very goal was to achieve perfection in his flight and thereby freedom. Unlike the rest of the gulls who were more concerned about eating, who never done anything in their lives other than moving from shore to food and back again. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight, as long as they can fly to get to their food. But for Jonathan Seagull, it was not eating that mattered but flight, flying beyond the horizons. He believes that there's got to be more to this life than just fighting for fish heads. His parents warned him about his obsession, "learning to fly higher won't bring food to the table" they said. "I don't mind being bones and feathers, I just want to know what I can or cannot do in the air and that's it, I just want to know" he told them. He lived as an outcast but eventually attained his goal - perfection in flight. This was after he knew about love, for there are no more limits to flight when one has achieved love. Little did his parents and friends understand that: The gull that flies the highest sees the farthest

The warrior of the light is a believer; because he believes that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. For me, this was a book full of proverbs, words of encouragement and wisdom, filled with so much realization on life. As you go along reading each page, you would realize that you can relate to what the author is sharing to us, that in each one of us there is a warrior of light, hiding beneath our folds of fear and doubts. We are a Warrior of Light, whether we believe in it at first or not, because we are servants of the longingness to find our dreams, to conquer our fears and live life with pure contentment. A Warrior of Light is not perfect, and more than we could imagine, have more flaws than what eyes can perceive;but a Warrior of Light is not afraid to admit his mistakes and go through about his chosen path with the hope that he will soon find his way to his Personal Legend. He believes that no one can fulfill his destiny but he alone; and that without God, he is nothing but a mere dust on the face of the Earth. This book is not only a book of inspirational quotations but a book reflecting our own personal endeavors and feelings; it's a mirror of our ownselves, seeing through it that we are capable.