To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your l...
The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one give...
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
Mondanom kell valamit a félelemről. Ez az élet egyetlen igazi ellensége. Csak a félelem tudja legyőzni az életet. Okos, alattomos ellenség, én aztán tudom. Nincs benne tisztesség, kímélet, nem ismer t...
It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.
It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale,...
I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.
I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know it. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, s...
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for wh...
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me...
But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
بالنسبة إلى كل الحيوانات، بما فيها الإنسان، التحديق هو سلوك عدائي.
Many people seem to lose God along life’s way.
Why, Islam is nothing but an easy sort of exercise, I thought. Hot-weather yoga for the Bedouins. Arenas without sweat, heaven without strain,
Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.