“What is hope? It is the presentiment that imagination is more real and reality less real than it looks. Continue reading
Personal Development
If you don’t play the game, you can’t know enough to make the rules.
Oratory is empty if it has not been field-tested on the battlefield of experience. And I have little use for those who write beautifully and live sordidly; or those who withdraw from the world and issue instructions for how to live in it; or priesthoods that deny the realities of the flesh but wish to control the appetites and activities of those who live as whole human beings. If you don’t play the game, you can’t know enough to make the rules. If you are not engaged in the sweaty work of the world, you should not be in charge of the deodorant concession. And if you cannot find a way to aid progress in human affairs, then know that the smirking cynicism of the sideline critic is a form of plaque – and to be one of those is to be a carrier of death instead of a preserver of life. Strong words? Yes, and deeply felt”
– Robert Fulghum
Spiritual Communication and Healing
There is an obscure story about of one of Freud’s personal conversations that puts an interesting twist on the state of psychology in the West. Continue reading
Peace is not an ideal – J Krishnamurthi
What causes war – religious, political or economic? Obviously belief, either in nationalism, in an ideology, or in a particular dogma. If we had no belief but goodwill, love and consideration between us, then there would be no wars. Continue reading
The Surprising Truth about what motivates us
You will be what you will to be
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
Humanity cannot forget its dreamers
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
Bend and you will never break
Learn to bend, and you will never break
Learn to turn, and you will never fall Continue reading
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