In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.
Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.