There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them — like ’em better sometimes.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Lord Varyls, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I’d feel sad about it.

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must...

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?””Pressure. Weight. Heat…””The geological equivalent of torture.

Character is just an invention, but it’s an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. – Broken Verses

I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make...

the problem in today’s society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.

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 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...

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...

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