“We are here to do. And through doing to learn; and through learning to know; and through knowing to experience wonder; and through wonder to attain wisdom; and through wisdom to find simplicity; and simplicity to give attention; and through attention to see what needs to be done. - ”
— from the Pirke Avot (Sayings or Ethics of the Fathers)
“If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition;if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions. - ”
— Padmasambhava
“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong”
— H. L. Menken
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
— Albert Einstein
“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.”
— Rudolf Bahro
“It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites—opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity—where energies flow smoothly in one direction—there will be much doing but no music.”
— Eric Hoffer
“If it’s your experience, you have something to do with it”
— Ken McLeod
“Change is constant in life. Mind should accord with changes. Do not use yesterday’s mind to perceive today’s happenings.”
— Zhuang Zi
““... to become a writer, I had to learn to interrupt, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then louder, and then to just speak in my own voice which is not loud at all.” ”
