Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
The night is a tunnel. . . a hole into tomorrow.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. . . We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.