philosophy-of-life

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!

Civilization _ and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe _ has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance_That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

Hatred is as much an attachment as desire. Love liberates.

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

When we try to slow things down, it tries to run ahead of us. When we try to fast forward it, it holds us back. Einstein was probably right about it, time IS elastic. One pull at it and it will snap back onto you.

Don't you wish it could happen? Your mind wiped clean like a hard drive? Start again without memories?

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man__ hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

It is easier to be angry. It is easier to hate. It is easier to knock someone down. Those are surface level emotions. It is much harder to be tolerant, to seek wisdom and understand, to stop and evaluate your response even can be pretty challenging. Hate is born of ignorance. We are so distracted that living with any depth is such an oversight as a society. We must learn to love and to stop and think. All of which spending time in meditation with the word of God gives us. But who has time for that?

We live in a global village, Neel, where billions of voices babble simultaneously, and in this village a new hierarchy is being established, a new caste-system is being created. Only this time, it is money that sets the tone. Whoever has the most money buys the biggest loudspeaker and is the neo-Brahmin of this new world order. If the ninety-year-old neo-Brahmin on the other side of the earth is terrified of antibiotic resistant flesh-eating bacteria, we must think twice before offering treatment to a twenty-four-year old here. These are the new rules of our global village.

If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate.

To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless

There are two kinds of people in the world. There are eggers and lightkeepers. The former are driven by acquisition and avarice. The latter are driven by curiosity and caution. Eggers take what they can, consequences be damned. Lightkeepers take what they need, nothing more. Eggers want to have. Lightkeepers want to be.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life