If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
. . . many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
You are a child of the universe.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.
The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.