Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Stories never really end. . . even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said. . . "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. . . and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower. . . both strange and familiar.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
Peak performance is meditation in motion.