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However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.
It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.
We go to the cinema we see images projected on the screen - but they're not real, they're only images.
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.
Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.
After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.
Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.
Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.
Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.
Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.
You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.
When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.
The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.
Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.
The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.
Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.
Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.
The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?