Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
Many people ‘react’ and then ‘regret’. Learn therefore to ‘reflect’ and then ‘respond’.
In an evolutionary context, development has no end. That means we can always develop more, further, higher and deeper. In Traditional Enlightenment, it’s possible to become ‘fully enlightened’. In Buddhism, they call it ‘cessation’ or ‘the end of becoming’. Evolutionary Enlightenment is about infinite becoming for eternity.
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
-Louis Nizer
Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.
-Jarod Kintz
Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.