Wisdom

Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

The brighter the sunlight, the worse it affects them,' said Einstein.'So we got to pay more attention to the weather forecast,' said DogNut. 'Cloudy with a chance of zombies.

Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. 'Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?' enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, 'Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression.

A ‘biomass’ man does not use logical and analytical thinking.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people.

I pay ZERO attention to what you say. But your actions have my undivided attention.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

The only stirrups I like are on a saddle.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.