Searching for Soul

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ~Epictetus

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. ~Goethe

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. ~ Henry David Thoreau "Walden"

Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos. ~I-Ching

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. ~Lyall Watson

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~Frederic Chopin