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“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”
“Routine feeds the illusion of safety...”
“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unsp...”
“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a ...”
“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”
“There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: sorry and thank-you. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends is ...”
“The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.”
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
“learn from the past live in the present plan for the future”
“To know when to be generous and when firmthat is wisdom.”
“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”
“Wisdom can be gathered on your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on r...”
“What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free ofattachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.”
“Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
“Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”
“Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.”
“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
“Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.”
“There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”
“....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their me...”
