In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem. ' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.
Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.
We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least. "
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.