Existence/Keberadaan

When a man is deprived of the foundation that provides him everything, his poverty loses its best virtue, simplicity, to become no more than disgraceful and sordid. His wealth is no longer splendid, but becomes merely extravagant. His appetites no longer remain within natural limits; they no longer have the one goal of meeting the [...]

To Be/Menjadi

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to be Tanggung jawab kita bukan lagi untuk memiliki, tapi adalah untuk menjadi. Rabindranath Tagore

Dharma

The freedom of the seed resides in its fulfillment of its dharma, of its nature and its destiny, which is to become a tree; the failure to achieve this becomes for the seed a prison. The sacrifice through which one thing reaches its fulfillment is not a sacrifice that leads to death; it is the [...]

Contradiction/Kontradiksi

Do we still not know that the appearance of a seed is in direct contradiction to its true nature? If you submit the seed to a chemical analysis, you would find in it perhaps some carbon, proteins, and many other things, but never the hint of the leaf of a tree Apakah kita masih tidak [...]

Pure/Murni

Man must understand that when he cuts himself off from all stimulating and purifying contact with infinity, and no longer relies on it for his subsistence and his health, he risks madness; he tears himself asunder, and divorces himself from his very substance. Manusia harus menyadari ketika dia memutuskan dirinya dari semua hubungan yang menstimulasi [...]

Serenity Perfection/Irama Kesempurnaan

Man has lost his inner perspective, he measures his greatness by his size and not by his vital attachment to the infinite; he judges his activity by his own movement and not by the serenity of perfection, not by the peace that exists in the starry vault, in the rhythmic dance of incessant creation. Manusia [...]

Grand Harmony/Harmoni Agung

What does it matter if we do not understand the exact meaning of the grand harmony? Is it not like the bow player who touches a string and at once releases every resonance? This is the language of beauty, this is the caress that comes from the heart of the world and goes straight to [...]

Beauty/Kecantikan

At our first meeting with beauty, we see it in its gaudy faded finery, jarring us with its garish tones, its frills and flounces, even its deformed shapes. But when we get to know it better, the apparent discord reveals itself to us as rhythmic modulatios. At first, we isolate beauty from all that is [...]

Soul/Jiwa

Man progresses, from epoch to epoch, toward the full realization of his soul, of this soul that is greater than all the riches he can accumulate, than all the actions he can accomplish and all the theories he can set forth, this soul that continues onward, never ending in death or dissolution. Manusia berkembang, dari [...]