I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
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The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you read more
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
