We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”
― Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
― Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
“All too often, the words we have said to ourselves when things went wrong contributed to the problem—instead of making it better or helping us solve it.”
― What To Say When You Talk To Your Self
― What To Say When You Talk To Your Self
“Every aspect of you is perfect. There’s nothing to let go, nothing to forgive, nothing to attain. You already are everything you need to be. It can seem so complicated, but it’s not.”
― Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
― Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing fountain, reveals the secret of life through word and gesture, color and sound. The”
― The Seasons of the Soul
― The Seasons of the Soul
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