But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.
Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind that passes through the trees, alert to everything that is happening. Concentration excludes much, includes little. Awareness excludes nothing, includes all. Awareness is a state of no-mind. You are, yet you are not focused. You are just a mirror reflecting all, echoing all; see the beauty of it and the silence and the stillness.
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.