Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking. . . ,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!
It is safe to say that the U. S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.