In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love.
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice. " Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.