Meditaion yoga wonders
“If a man marches out of step with his fellows it may be that he hears the sound of a different drummer or, perhaps, that he has a poor sense of rhythm.”
From Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”
True merit; like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Lord Halifax
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976)
“Everybody has enough personal power for something. The trick for the
warrior is to pull his personal power away from his weaknesses to his
warrior’s purpose.”
-Carlos Casteneda, Second Ring of Power.
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.
Apollonius Tyanaeus (Greek Traveller, 1st Century CE)
“The idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than anything from our wildest dreams. That being, called Gaia, is the Earth.”
——–>Stephen Miller
“In a cat’s eyes, all things belong to cats.” English Proverb
I couldn’t wait for success . . . so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
- Thomas Szasz
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
- D.H. Lawrence
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.
–D.H Lawrence
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
–Ethel Barrymore