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While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.
When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.
You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!
Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.
How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.
We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.
The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.
The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself.
It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.
There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.
Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.