If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault
Devotion to God’s Name is my lamp; In this lamp is poured the oil of suffering. The light of realisation burns away this oil…Vast loads of firewood are reduced to ashes by a tiny spark of fire.
The superior man does not embark upon any affair until he has carefully planned the start.
Come behold this world, which is like unto an ornamented royal chariot, wherein fools flounder, but for the wise there in no attachment.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami