Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.
Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.
Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us. ' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.
When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.