For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Silence, happiness, love and blessings are important aspects. Happiness leads to good health. It is only you who can give this medicine to yourself. There are three ingredients for a long and healthy life: live with attention but without worry; use time in a worthwhile way and keep your thoughts pure, positive and filled with strength.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Trust one who has gone through it.
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
If your days seem filled with unwanted negative feelings, there is only one cure. When they come, choose them. Dont ask why, dont wonder how, dont fight them and never put yourself down for having them. But most of all never blame someone else for how you feel. If you do, it means you are still fast asleep and your choice is to be a victim. When the feelings come, even big disturbing emotional feelings say, "I choose this feeling" and know it comes because of something you have thought or done in the past, perhaps a certain belief that you have learned or an attachment that is threatened. Choice does not mean you want the feelings, but it does mean you are taking responsibility for them. And that is the beginning of self mastery. It is the first step to the healing and resolving of your emotions. But only the first step. Try this today and then ask yourself what the next step might be. If you are really interested to know, you will come to know!
Amazing as it may seem, every event, every scene has some significance. Nothing is without meaning. Life is like a book - each day a new page, each interaction a new paragraph. We read books to learn, so we may grow and become more complete and more effective as we play this game called life. Can you read the book of your life, can you study the scenes of your day, in such a way that you may learn and grow? To get started, take time out to reflect, review and realise something new at least once a day - more often if you can. What was really going on there? What was I feeling at the time? Why? If you do this retrospective processing, eventually you will be able to read each scene with great clarity as it happens. That's when the reader becomes the writer, and life becomes truly a creative adventure, where we are able to see and appreciate the significance and meaning within every scene, and know exactly how to respond.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
A beggar's hand is a bottomless basket
Honour is a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times
In orgasm you are at one with yourself, with your lover, with all creation, with God. There is no time, no past or future, only total presence in the ternal now. The breath stops and the mind is empty. And from this void comes profound love, divine joy and illuminating bliss
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare...
