Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.
When you respond to your heart you are responding to love.
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.
Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls?
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.