To shriek and to slam the door shut repeatedly—with a deafening clang each time—until the keeper, notified by a visitor, hurried over to remedy the situation. A herd of roe-deer in a European zoo step...
Surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosingn immobility as a means of transportation.
In fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in th...
Animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. A
Zawsze znajdą się tacy, którzy wezmą na siebie obowiązek obrony Boga, jakby Najwyższa Istota czy podstawa wszelkiego bytu była czymś słabym i wymagającym wsparcia. Ludzie ci przechodzą obok wdowy prze...
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
What a strange, wondrous thing, music. At last the chattering mind is silenced. No past to regret, to future to worry about, no more frantic knitting of words and thoughts. Only a beautiful, soaring n...
We’re all busy. Meditating monks in their cells are busy. That’s adult life, filled to the ceiling with things that need doing. (It seems only children and the elderly aren’t plagued by lack of time—a...
We loved our son like the sea loves an island, always surrounding him with our arms, always touching him and crashing upon his shore with our care and concern. When he was gone, the sea had only itsel...
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Und dann war da die Frau, der ein Löwe den Sari auszog. Sie drehte sich wie ein Jojo, denn dem tödlichen Ende zog sie die tödliche Schande dann doch vor. [...] Verletzt wurde sie nicht; zahlreiche Män...
Tomás shudders. He lifts his head. A breeze is blowing. In whatever direction he looks, there is majestic normalcy: wild growth here, tilled fields over there, the road, the sky, the sun. Everything i...
To lookout with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil within that has been...
There's no boot.No boot?No.That makes me sad.I ate it.You ate the boot?Yes.Was it good?No. Were the cigarettes good?No. I couldn't finish them.I couldn't finish the boot.
The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? (p. 302)
The voice said, I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routi...
The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips, reported Tirler (1966). I have seen that smile with my own...