People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.
The ego hates losing – even to God.
A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.
I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards. "
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.