Tag: philosophy

All paths are present, always… and we can but choose among them....

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made....

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse...

All knowledge is worth having....

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness....

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged...

It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times....

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born....

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being....

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try....