I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has all too much a professional air.
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.
Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights?. . . It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love. '. . . Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.