Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
Humans are almost always lonely.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.
I’m the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me.
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It’s gone, but we remain.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Law is the ultimate science.
Grief is the price of victory.
Sympathy for the enemy – a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.