I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.
You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U. S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].
Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.
If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain - that you will not be yourself. And then follows the next thing: you can never be a buddha, because you are you and a buddha is buddha. If you try to become a buddha, you cannot be a buddha; at the most you can be an imitation - a plastic flower, not a real rose.