The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
Sources of Energy
Effort gives joy An aim gives a meaning, a purpose to life, and this purpose implies an effort: and it is in effort that one finds joy. Exactly. It is the effort which gives joy: a human being who does not know how to make an effort will never find joy. Those who are essentially [More …]
Do Not Say that I’ll Depart Tomorrow
Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower to be [More …]
Getting Your Life in Order
One of my teachers once said, “If you haven’t got your basic life in order and have not begun to live a life of calmness, stability, service, honesty, practicing the basic virtues and then you meditate or do other spiritual practices, it’s like having a cow that eats organic grass and gives wonderful organic milk, [More …]
He Who Learns Must Suffer
In Agamemnon, the Greek poet Aeschylus wrote: He who learns must suffer. In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God
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