One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
If the mind becomes balanced and detached, and comes to dwell in its own true home, imbued with reverence for the Divine, then it enjoys the essence of supreme spiritual wisdom; it shall never feel hunger again.
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
