george grace

“The cessation of suffering is when we release our demand for the world to be as we want it to be and let it resume its own contours and textures.”
― Katherine Thanas, The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is

“Civilizations don’t usually die from murder, to paraphrase the famous British historian Arnold Toynbee. Civilizations die from suicide. It is increasing dangers inside our organizations that threaten us most. And fortunately, those dangers are well within our control.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

“the many artificial ways in which we distance ourselves from the earth—in the form of pavements and multi-storied structures, or even the widespread trend of wearing high heels—involves an alienation of the part from the whole and suffocates the fundamental life process. This”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

“Bacon was but a precursor of the Darwinian war of reasoned teachings against dogmatic beliefs, which left such a deep mark on the thought of the last century. Whatever may have been the place of blind faith during former centuries, it cannot again for long assume leadership in a century when reason has so visibly and so tangibly shown its triumphs all around us. We”
― Paul Brunton, The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga: The Path to Self-Realization and Philosophic Insight, Volume 1