The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he i...
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existenc...
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that’s required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.
The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.
A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfille...
The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem, Kynes said, is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in...
Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the consciousness... aortal dilation... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness... to be consciou...
The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.
Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.
Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.
The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even e...
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
For what do you hunger, Lord? Moneo ventured.For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability t...
My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what t...
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