The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony.  This is what furthers and what perseveres.   Alexander Pope

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness.  The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are.  Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.   Tara Brach

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.  Paramahansa Yogananda

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith, and right conduct.  The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.  Virchand Gandhi

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.  Mary Browne

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn’t.  Alanis Morissette