In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.
I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
The United States, in people's perverted minds, is responsible for all the destitution and all the poverty and all the victimization around the world and it is our responsibility to let all of these people in precisely because it's our fault they exist as they do.
Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities. . And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance. . we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.
Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.
I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.