Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.
Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.
We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone. . . much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.