"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."
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"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."
"If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him."
"How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything."
"Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does."
"It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us."
"If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease."
"God does not punish us for our sins but by them."
"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still."
"How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth."
"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted."
"Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination."
"One does not see anything until one sees its beauty."
"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."
"Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others."
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
"Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth."
"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."
"Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'"
"How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality."