Wisdom

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.

Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao.

To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed.

I don't like to sugarcoat, it can cause an addiction to B.S.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

I can only change the world by changing myself.

Before you open your mouth to say something, take a step back and imagine what you're going to say was said to you.It makes you think twice, doesn't it?

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul).

Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.