Things just are the way they are… However, NOWHERE in ANY law, dogma, or rules is it mandated -be it sanctioned, decreed, or wrought by divine imposition- that ANY OF IT HAS TO BE THIS...

God Made Nature, Nature Need Friends.

I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone,...

He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one’s true character is revealed.

Izzi: Remember Moses Morales? Tom Verde: Who? Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about. Tom Verde: From your trip. Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father,...

Nada disso tem a ver com moralidade, religião, dogmas ou grandes questões sobre a vida após a morte. A verdade com V maiúsculo diz respeito à vida antes da morte. Diz respeito a chegar aos...

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East,...

At the same time that ‘I’ am the content of a relation, ‘I’ am also that which does the relating.

Divine is supernatural.

And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought...

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same...

Try and avoid people who use the word “cant” regularly associate rather with those who say “can” and do

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with

You are the one and only solution for your problem.

(…) era uma vez um grão de areia que se lamentava de ser um átomo ignorado do deserto; ao final de alguns anos tornou-se diamente (…). Essas palavras me deixaram impressionado; eu era o grão...

What’s in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful 🙂

It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must...

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. ‘Flour and sugar,’ she said, and then thought a bit. ‘Sometimes we’ll buy pretzels as a splurge.’It crossed my mind that the world’s...

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

One’s mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

It’s not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you’ll find out, when you’ve been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Reality – Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams – Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyReality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of beliefs and a lifestyle that adheres to this lack of belief? NO, IT...

Who says you need to wait until you ‘feel like’ doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn’t that you don’t feel motivated; it’s that you imagine you need...

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.

I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak...

Our Universe is a multidimensional one; every individual life unit consciously functions in a particular vibratory level (dimension or density) but unconsciously/ subconsciously functions in and through all the other levels, and as the awareness...

Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we reel backwards ten times fold. I don’t even think on the Precipice of Change will we truly move forward… It...

If we possess narrative sympathy – enabling us to see the world from other’s point of view – we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn’t lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole...

What is the meaning to this life?” is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn’t contain any meaning till we don’t write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn’t contain any meaning without this...

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!

… the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there...

Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.

Ahora miraba el mundo como algo remoto, con lo que yo no tenía nada que ver y de lo que nada esperaba, y de hecho nada deseaba: en pocas palabras, no tenía nada que ver...

Living well is dying well.

If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.

Try & try until you cannot succeed.

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.

You’re too young to decide to live forever.

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don’t even know where I belong.

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

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back

The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live...