Ambition is poison. If you want to be a better musician, I can help you, but don't think in terms of becoming world-famous. If you want to be a better poet, I can help you, but don't think in terms of Nobel prizes. If you...
The following questions are designed to measure your capacity to choose happiness and fulfillment. Go through the questions as objectively as possible and assess yourself and how you live your present moments. “Yes” responses indicate personal mastery and effective choice-making. 1. Do you believe that your...
12. For also after the Trojan war the Grecians continued still their shiftings and transplantations; insomuch as never resting, they improved not their power. For the late return of the Greeks from Ilium caused not a little innovation; and in most of the cities there...
1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians as they warred against each other, beginning to write as soon as the war was on foot; with expectation it should prove a great one, and most worthy the relation of all...
Respect is a beautiful word, and it’s one of the most important symbols that we can understand. Imagine that you had never heard the word before, and let’s make it up and agree on a meaning, because just like any other symbol, we need to...
So, what happens in the world is that everybody is fighting somebody. One man is lesser than another man. There is no love, there is no consideration, there is no thought. Each man wants to become somebody. A member of parliament wants to become the...
Whoever goes in search of any thing must come to this, either to say that he has found it, or that it is not to be found, or that he is yet upon the search. (Sextus Empiricus) All philosophy is divided into these three kinds; her design...
Finally, should I examine whether it be in the power of man to find out that which he seeks and if that quest, wherein he has busied himself so many ages, has enriched him with any new force, or any solid truth; I believe he will...
A warrior came to the Zen master Hakuin and asked ‘Is there such a thing as heaven and hell?’ Hakuin said ‘Who are you?’ The warrior replied ‘I am chief samurai to the emperor.’ Hakuin said ‘You, a samurai? With a face like that, you look more like a beggar.’ At...
But I know not how it happens (and yet it unquestionably does happen), that there is as much emptiness and weakness of understanding as in any other class of persons, in those who profess to have the most knowledge, who deal with lettered occupations, and...
