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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.
We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.
Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.
Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.
No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
Everyone is growing and developing. Everyone has to go through a trial and eror process of finding what is right.
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.
It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.
There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.