I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness … , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference … that was only … pierced wh...
I wanted only to try to live in obedience to the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure for pride.
He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of symbols, the foreshadowing of numbers and writing, the reduction o...
Fue la primera fractura en los pilares que sostenían la majestuosidad con la que yo veía a mi padre; fue la primera vez que perdía la confianza en mi padre, y que en verdad todo hombre debe perder alg...
E sempre é bom termos consciência de que dentro de nós há alguém que tudo sabe, tudo quer e age melhor do que nós mesmos
Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and ne...
I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children al...
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
همه آن چیزهایی که در دنیا هست در آدمی نیز وجود دارد
به تعالیمی توجه دارم که از «جوهرِ جانم» نشات می گیرند
The things we see, said Pistorius gently, are the things which are already in us. There is no reality beyond what we have inside us. That is why most people live such unreal lives; they take pictures...
Que todos los dones y bendiciones del espíritu que Cristo concede a los suyos se encuentra este: el de superarse a uno mismo y, por amor al Redentor, tolerar gustosamente el castigo y la injuria y el...
Emptied
Desires are not killed by fulfilling them
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
Whenever he is hungry and opens his bag, there are only pearls inside.
What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication?
Todas las especies humanas tienen sus caracteres, sus sellos clásicos, cada una tiene sus vicios y sus virtudes, cada una de ellas tiene su pecado mortal