So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.
She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.
Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life
Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.
The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
El cristianismo no debía odiar a la magia; pero la ignorancia humana siempre tiene miedo de lo desconocido.
Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.
So what do we do?" "We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
La ciencia encarna el deseo humano de entender la naturaleza; la tecnología conjuga ese deseo con la ambición de controlarla.
Quería que el amor lo conquistase todo. Pero el amor no puede conquistarlo todo. No puede hacerlo todo por sí solo. Ha de confiar en que seamos nosotros quienes conquistamos por él
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche?
Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
