To be awake is to be alive.
- Topic: Awareness, Life
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
