Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I’m not interested in the well-being of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in their own way - each one is unique.
A disciple in training will comprehend this earth, the realm of death and the realm of the gods. A disciple in training will investigate the well-taught Path of Virtue, even as an expert garland-maker picks flowers.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution, experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfilment.