If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.