When these walks of my grandmother’s took place after dinner there was one thing which never failed to bring her back to the house: this was if (at one of those points when her circular itinerary brought her back, mothlike, in sight of the lamp...
It is difficult for people of the present age not only to understand the cause of their miserable condition, but even to grasp the fact that their condition is miserable. This is chiefly due to the principal calamity of the age which is called progress and which...
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by experience, which is the bitterest; and third, by imitation, which is easiest. CONFUCIUS “Wise elders” are all around us and these people have much to teach us. Talking to older people to find...
You can truly victimize yourself, your spouse and your children, by giving excessive competitiveness top priority in your philosophy or behavior. Schools which demand all "A's" from students, and force them into sometimes vicious competition with each other, may produce a few shining lights—but are...
The Steppenwolf, too, believes that he bears two souls (wolf and man) in his breast and even so finds his breast disagreeably cramped because of them. The breast and the body are indeed one, but the souls that dwell in it are not two, nor...
You need not go to any school to learn creativity. All that you need is to go withinwards and help the ego dissolve. Don't support it; don't go on strengthening and nourishing it. And whenever the ego is not, all is truth, all is beautiful,...
This room, how well I know it. Now they’re renting it, and the one next to it, as offices. The whole house has become an office building for agents, businessmen, companies. This room, how familiar it is. The couch was here, near the door, a Turkish carpet in front of it. Close...
Men have been taught not to cry; tears are not manly so men don't cry. Now what kind of foolishness is this? Crying and weeping sometimes has such a therapeutic effect - it is needed, it is a must, it unburdens. Man goes on burdening...
You are likely to feel out of control and fearful when changes in your circumstances are ongoing; when they are unexpected and undesired you experience a crisis situation. Per-haps your job or an important relationship that you had imagined were secure turn out not to...
A man went to the doctor's because of a number of unknown pains that he had been having. "Yes, doctor, I am really fed up; all my body is in pain. Everything in my life is going badly. It's a complete mess. " The doctor began to...
