The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from knowing the chemical formula of vanilla. There is a joy, an inherent aliveness in the body that you can experience if you pay attention to your body. But if you live up in your head, in your words all the time, you don't notice it.
Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.
In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
What good is safety if you're dead inside?
The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.