What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. ...
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the c...
I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness... Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our consciousness individually and collectively. Our collectiv...
Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity nee...
As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the competition/efficiency/marketplace Trinity seem...
Marjane as a teenager: You say that our scarfs and trousers are indecent and that we put on make up, etc. As an art student, I'm often in the studio. I need to move freely in order to draw. A longer scarf will hinder me. As for our trousers, you say ...
Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we lin...
People die voluntarily when it becomes impossible to live.
The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living.
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.
Friendship with the French is like their wine; exquisite but short lived.
Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.
Who lives in a quiet house has plenty.
Live and scratch -- when you're dead the itching will stop.
Who lives in exile finds that spring has no charm.
He who knows how to live, knows enough.
If you would live in health, grow old early.
No one can pray well, but those who live well.
People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses.
Pain demands to be felt.
There is no try. There is only do.
