Wisdom

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing.

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented.

Humility is attentive patience.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

That’s because it is cruel, Obi-Wan,” Anakin snapped. “Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order.” He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.

Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.