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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

The Idiot

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.

The Immersion Book of Steampunk

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

Kokoro

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Krik? Krak!

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Killosophy

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

Killosophy

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Killosophy

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

Reading Between the Lines

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Radically Ordinary

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

You used to be the best to make life be real to me, and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

Reconsider Me: The Love Songs

Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.

Songs of Enlightenment

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Shadowlands

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.

A Song for Julia

There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

Somebody I Used to Know

Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

A Short Affair Called Life

Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life