Truths and roses have thorns about them. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for...
We have never before tried this new road of thinking, “Well, thank you, I’m glad that you’re so horrible because now I can practice patience.” We don’t have a road in our brain for that one. So we have to start. We start to go along this new road but then the grass spri...
“It has been written that the shortest and best way between two truths of the real domain often passes through the imaginary one,” in An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (1945), 123. The
Selfish love, although limited, does have a kind of manipulative power to give, to serve. It has power that can aid in transforming you into a better, warmer person. For example, many men say, “Oh, I am not a bad man. I take care of twenty children and my wife. I send them to...
That’s like saying you don’t need to shower because you smell like roses now. Even the shiniest new carpets collect dust and allergens. Regular cleaning helps prolong their beauty and lifespan. It’s time to ditch the ‘new-car smell’ thinking for carpets. ...
Roses Lyrics, Late Registration (2005) 1 “And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road...
must be taken lightly. They will always be partial and therefore potentially destructive in this checkered world. Even the Buddhas, as Zen sees them, are still working on being able to understand their own lives, and ours, well enough even to be able to spread the half-truths that constitut...
This, says Shantum Seth, is when “the Buddha became the buddhadharma.” On that day in Deer Park, the Buddha taught for the very first time. In this, his first sermon, he taught the four noble truths, and in doing so laid the foundation of the world religion we know today as Buddh...