Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.
The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.
Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else. '
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.