stupid persons can cause a lot of damage – unlike bandits, they have no interest in the survival of the system because they do not benefit from their stupidity.
“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
“Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.”
― Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
― Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened, and its deepest mystery probed?”
― The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
― The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
“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
“The day each of us was born, we were given that energy—minute bits of electrochemical energy which feed small but important messages to our minds. One day, when the energy jar is empty, those thoughts, combined together, will have created in our lives the sum total of every worthwhile thing we have done.”
― What To Say When You Talk To Your Self
― What To Say When You Talk To Your Self
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