I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph. D. s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.
Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.