529 quotes found
“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.”
“Words have to die if humans are to live.”
“Do not try to be humble: learn humility.”
“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”
“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.”
“If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.”
“What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution, with its emphasis on mutation, struggle and death? That conscious cooperation was more efficient...”
“You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.”
“Effective meditation must lead the meditator to the heights of the infinite sky of superconsciousness and facilitate the plunge into the deepest ocean of subconsciousness, and emerge the wiser. Thi...”
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.”
“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And if we are surprised, and some of us disappointed, that the li...”
“I think its imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. Thats how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names it God, goes toward it, goes up in flames. Same goes for moths. W...”
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect.""I don't deny that th...”
“Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn wel...”
“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!”
“Every new discovery about the genome is consistent with evolution having happened. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom a...”
“Change biology, and you could change society--but could you change society on its own? Were we as a species simply condemned to permanent misery, all because of how we have evolved?This was the con...”
“One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.”
“Globally, our soul lessons have become more frequent and intense as we are called to evolve.”
“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him,...”
