Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.
We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.
Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord. " In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being. " Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
As a twin, I operate with twin desires.
We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up.