“We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism.

What makes it worse is that so many people do not really want to think. They…

Of The Empire

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture…

You don't see faith healers working in hospitals for the same reason you don't see psychics winning the lottery every week 

-Author unknown

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, especially when the stakes are high. I grow weary of a proliferating…

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Thou mayest.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” 

Ursula K. Le Guin 

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

Allen Saunders

The True Origin: The 1957 Quote: 

• The phrase first appeared in the "Quotable Quotes" section of the January 1957 issue of Reader's Digest, credited to Saunders.…

What you say is true but when you say it, it is not true.

“St. Augustine” perhaps….. not sure

This line distinguishes between something being objectively true and the speaker's relationship to that truth. it says, in effect, that a…

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

Thomas Hardy

"Meaning of the Quote

Constant change: Time alters the world, our bodies, and our surroundings.

Inner resistance: A deep part of human nature expects stability.

…

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily…

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

E. E. Cummings

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Even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications — and most of all himself. For it appears to be an inborn and imperative need…

"The harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

Albert Einstein

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear infinite.

William Blake

Photo by Alexander Mass

"Attention is not just another cognitive function... it is the disposition adopted by one's consciousness toward the world." 

Dr. Iain McGilchrist

This quote is actually one of the central ideas running through The Master and His Emissary and even more…

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

—is one of the most famous attributed quotes associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but it’s very likely apocryphal or at least heavily paraphrased rather…

"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

—Kafka

You know I can 
control the weather
with my moods. 
I just can't control 
my moods is all.

-Nick Cave

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on…

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

Hafez

This was quoted at the end of Robert Waldinger's fantastic TED talk on happiness.

"There isn't time -so brief is life- for bickerings, apologies
heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and
but an instant so…

It is often the loudest judgments that come from the quietest comfort. From well-lit rooms and full tables, opinions are formed about lives lived in struggle, without ever stepping into that reality. History and literature alike remind us that empathy…

“The only clue to what man can do is what man has done.”

R.G. Collingwood

The quote is by C. S. Lewis, from his essay/sermon The Weight of Glory (1941).

“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in…