The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Humility means to understand the self and through that to understand others as well. Humility is the attitude where a person is not attached to his or her opinion and feelings. Humility is the most natural expression of truth. It helps in better understanding of truth. Humility is the basis for maintaining self-respect. Humility does not mean bowing down and being subservient to others. Humility allows you to see benefit in everything. Developing humility brings a lot of comfort and ease into your life.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Zen says: Think of all the great words and great teachings as your deadly enemy. Avoid them, because you have to find your own source. You have not to be a follower, an imitator. You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise.
Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.
I owe my solitude to other people.
Instead of losing sleep over whatever I have done wrong, let me get busy doing something right
Your ability to recognize the specialities of others makes you a natural leader.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Few are aware of the phenomenal power of belief. We carry bundles of them, mostly in our subconscious, and mostly put there by others...but only because we allowed them to (genes do not have beliefs!) Unless we awaken to the beliefs we carry, we will never ever be at peace with ourselves, and certainly the world around us will be a threatening place. Begin by becoming aware of your language - your words will tell you what you have recorded inside. Some clues, 'I can't...', 'Aren't they awful...', 'It will never....', 'They shouldn't...', are all phrases which indicate different categories of negative and disempowering belief. During the next three days see how many categories you can identify within yourself. Just being aware of them will begin the process of challenging and changing them.
Righteousness is good character, and sin is that which revolves in your heart and which you do not want people to know.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.
