Tag: philosophy

We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own....

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up…...

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy....

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one....

But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word “reason” already implies the idea of causal...

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket....

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand....

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be–we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being....

I am what some would say ‘holy, and wholly other than you.’ The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring...

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight....