Tag: philosophy

The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior’s...

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence — even mental....

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be....

And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for no reason that they themselves knew of. The child’s whole body was covered in bruises. Eventually they devised a...

There’s no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that’s that....

If you appreciate the small things, you’re likely to get the big ones....

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?...

Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards....

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as...

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history....