We've created life in our own image.
If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot. " (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word. )
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen.
The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free of ignorance, false beliefs or prejudice. Able to honor each person as they walk their own path and not infringe our own personal beliefs onto them but to accept what ever form that carries truth for them
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!