The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Topic: Faith, Perception
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Faith in yourself matters.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.