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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.
It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.
We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
