Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?
The ego is entranced by. . . names and ideas. . . However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon. " When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud. " Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones.
I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.
I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.
