You will be what you will to be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word, “environment,”
But spirit scorns it, and is free.
It masters time, it conquers space;
It cows that boastful trickster, Chance,
And bids the tyrant Circumstance
Uncrown, and fill a servant’s place. Continue reading
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers. Continue reading
Learn to bend, and you will never break
Learn to turn, and you will never fall Continue reading
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people Continue reading
Discover for yourself your stage of spiritual development, to which class in the school you would fit in. Then determine to proceed from that class to the next higher one. Continue reading
Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk across because of a puddle of water. Continue reading
“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. Continue reading
If we have any desire to create an alternative future, it is only going to happen through a shift in our language. Continue reading
Life, I now think, is really a search for our own identity. Sad is he or she who dies without knowing who they really are, or of what they are really capable. As we move through life we climb a sort of ladder of identity, gradually proving and discovering ourselves. Continue reading
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