It all begins with goodness in the heart.

Often times, “shame” is the word that best describes reality.

You can’t judge a book by its cover,” he said. “No,” said Watts. “But you can tell how much it’s gonna cost!

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring...

This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger...

I would like to believe and give in to my naiveté, I would like to embrace the fact that I am back in the place where the long fingers of civilization cannot reach me and...

The Prayer of the Middle-Aged ManAmid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother & host at Cana implored too soon, in the middle of disciples, the midst of the mob, between High-Priest and...

Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters’ inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

Don’t believe in coincidence. There is nothing unplanned in this universe ~ Levon Peter Poe

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making – rjs

In the “Brihadaranyaka Upanishad” it is said that it is not the physical person who is attractive, but it is the Atman residing in that person which attracts us. It is that which provides all...

In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless...

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

Need doesn’t care about being sensible.

The more you give the less your poor

Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to...

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

It’s best to locate the mind first before launching the ‘missiles of contention’.

Life is science.

We are, now, just as valuable, intelligent, and real as Eliot or any of his contemporaries. Our ideas and experiences are just as sound and true. Our passion to save our world from what we...

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter

Apprentices Needed, Not DisciplesFor many, the knowledge of a Jesus, a Lao-tzu, a Buddha, or a Gandhi is complete and unassailable. But we do them and their vision a disservice when we follow them rather...

Luck is often just skill expressing itself without the brain’s consent.

What people had had shed and left–a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes–those alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled...

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would,...

On dit que les philosophes et les vrais sages sont indifférents. C’est faux, l’indifférence est une paralysie de l’ me, une mort anticipée.

You have to set somebody free for them to return

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

Do you know how a pearl comes to be?””Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.””Aiyah. From a bit of sand.” He rolled the pearl between his fingers. “All pearls begin as something unpleasant that...

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.

To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut… while so many of its brethren...

If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That’s why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.

Everything you know gained from experience

She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless