Steven Gonsalves

“On popular education: To make students recite by rote what they do not understand is like training parrots. Teach children to be curious so they learn to obey their own minds rather than obeying authorities the way the narrow-minded do, or obeying custom the way the stupid do. He who knows nothing, anyone can fool. He who has nothing, anyone can buy.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

“Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive. We are too often indoors, unaware of the elements. The elements are not our enemies: we ourselves are made of the elements. When we connect with them, they inspire us and make us stronger, allowing us to communicate with the world in much subtler ways.”
― Sakyong Mipham, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind

“Learn to start each day by smiling inwardly to your vital organs and thanking them for sustaining your life.”
― Mantak Chia, Chi Nei Tsang: Chi Massage for the Vital Organs

“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
― Thomas Paine