To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.
The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.
The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?
The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
Morale is faith in the man at the top.
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.