Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
The thought is not the thing.
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain
If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.