The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.
I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.