It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
Love only serves and does not calculate.
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.
The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.