...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

Religion stills a thinking mind.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end