Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led And thanks unto the harvest’s Lord who sends our “daily bread.” – Alice Williams.
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot (E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly)
[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite
[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite (Paul Krugman)
A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher’s knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge
A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher’s knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge (Guatama Buddha)
When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually
When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually (Tom Payne, A Guide to God’s Perplexing Path)
The mouth speaks from well spring of the heart
The mouth speaks from well spring of the heart (Lailah Gifty Akita)
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. (Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography)
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair (H.L. Mencken)
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are (Aldous Huxley)
Man is the cruelest animal
Man is the cruelest animal (Friedrich Nietzsche)