We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.
Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.
Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course-he dies, I have to listen to it.
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.