wisdom

You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can__ be replaced by anything else.

All great religions hold the power to enslave & the power to enlighten...

Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies.

No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.

We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power.

When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.

Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard...

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne__ lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward accommodation with an elementary desire for material comfort_because so many regard this archipelago as preeminently a terrain of the mind and spirit, a locus of biological thought and psychological rejuvenation. The sheer strength of Darwin__ insight into the development of biological life gently urges a visitor to be more than usually observant here- to notice, say, that while the thirteen Galapagean finches are all roughly the same hue, it is possible to separate them according to marked differences in the shapes of their bills and feeding habits.

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.

When you love yourself, you love your spirit, so everyone can feel it, because everyone is a spiritual being.

I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I__ study the stars in their brilliant blazing, the diaphanous swath of the milk Way, the distant glow of Boston backlighting the clouds on the horizon as if they__ been drawn there in smudgy charcoal. I felt, perhaps for the first time, particularly American, embedded in American history, here at the nation__ slender tip. Here our westering impulse, having flooded the continent and turned back, finds itself face to face with the originating Atlantic, November__ chill, salt expanses, what Hart Crane called the __nfettered leewardings,_ here at the end of the world.

Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.

Your spirit nourishes from your old God and prophet, but mine nourishes from wisdom and conscience.

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.

Life is a series of awakenings.