Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.
If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business. '
The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity. . . . when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.