The Things which hurt, instruct.
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
Stories are Life’s instruction manuals.
If we lack the proper antidotes of emptiness and bodhichitta, we will not be able to control our minds when frightening appearances manifest. It is considered a sign of progress in this practice if we go unconscious, and then, when we wake up, have f...
It happened to me just this year with a beautiful boy I started hanging out with. Call me a hormonal teenager if you want, but evidently I haven’t grown out of this experience. His name, his voice, his face, his laugh - anything was enough to make ...
The good news is, shame has a kryptonite. Shame cannot survive under the power of love. Love defeats shame, every time. Love says that no matter what you did which may have caused guilt, you are loved. You are lovable. You are love itself. That is th...
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and...
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerabil...
To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him o...
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.
Lead by example, not by instruction.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
I don't know anything anymore
Let the flesh instruct the mind.
There's nothing more instructive than the immediate response of an audience.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
