WORDS THAT ENLIGHTEN THE SOUL ARE MORE PRECIOUS THAN JEWELS. Hazrat Inayat Khan
E.F. SCHUMACHER “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”‘ 1911-1977.
TRUE ART IS THE INTERMEDIARY between man’s ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
THE HEART OF THE MATTER, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villages.
ANYONE WHO THINKS consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
ANY INTELLIGENT FOOL can make things bigger and more complex . . . it takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
WISDOM DEMANDS a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
AN OUNCE OF PRACTICE IS GENERALLY WORTH MORE THAN A TON OF THEORY.
STUDY HOW A SOCIETY uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
THERE ARE THREE THINGS healthy people most need to do — to be creatively productive. to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.
THE REAL PROBLEMS of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
AN ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEM OF THOUGHT is needed, a system based on attention to people and not primarily attention to
goods.
THE FUNDAMENTAL TASK is to achieve smallness within large organization.
MAN IS SMALL, AND, THEREFORE, SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
IT MIGHT BE SAID that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee to have income without work.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI. 192-1994–“NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN”
CAN YOU REMEMBER WHO YOU WERE, before the world told you who you should be.
THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid people are full off confidence.
UNDERSTAND ME. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
WHATEVER THE CROWD DOES RUN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. They’re always wrong.
WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE.
FIND WHAT YOU LOVE AND LET IT KILL YOU.
REAL LONELINESS is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
SOME PEOPLE like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.
YOU HAVE TO DIE A FEW TIMES BEFORE YOU CAN REALLY LIVE.
THE FREE SOUL IS RARE, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
NOBODY can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
I GUESS the only time most people thing about injustice is when it happens to them.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES 1567-1622. Bishop of Geneva.
WHAT WE NEED is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
ANXIETY is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. god commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
HALF AN HOUR’S MEDITATION each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
FAITH IS LIKE A BRIGHT RAY OF SUN LIGHT. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
BE WHO YOU ARE AND BE THAT WELL.
I HAVE MADE A PACT WITH MY TONGUE, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
NEVER BE IN A HURRY; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world sees upset.
ONE RARELY DOES WELL WHAT ONE RARELY DOES.
DO NOT lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
HUMOR IS THE FOUNDATION OF RECONCILIATION.
NOTHING is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
BE PATIENT WITH EVERYONE, BUT ALWAYS ABOVE ALL WITH YOURSELF.
DO NOT WISH to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
A HEART-MEMORY is better than a mere head-memory.
WHERE THERE IS PEACE and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
GOD IS PRESENT EVERYWHERE, & EVERY PERSON IS HIS WORK.
COMING SOON: CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW–“ECSTASY”