Moment of Zen
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run
– J. M. Coetzee
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run
– J. M. Coetzee
Your imagination is your most powerful tool.
You learn more by falling than by the fear of falling.
Avoid unchallenging occupations—they waste your talents.
– Fortune Cookie
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
– Galileo Galilei
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Even though this quote is specific to Christianity, I feel it applies to all religion. You often find that the followers tend to stray away from the ideals set forth by the idols they worship. As time passes by, varying interpretations and beliefs of the original teachings begin to develop, resulting in numerous variations of the same religion.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“Truth is a pathless land and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. My only concern is to set humanity absolutely, unconditionally free. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. “
– J. Krishnamurthy
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
– John W. Gardner
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
– Margaret Mead
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake
– Ernest Hemingway
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw