“I had just traded a glass ornament for seven canes of sugar, and I was in the process also of assimilating a lesson, which I shall mention later. The seven stalks were on the ground…
“The Yequana taught me far more refined ways of dealing with people than the ones I had known in civilization. Their way of greeting visitors struck me as particularly sound. I saw it first when…
“A child’s curiosity and desire to do things himself are the definition of his capacity to learn without sacrificing any part of his whole development. Guidance can only heighten certain abilities at the expense of…
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter…
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered black face…
“We are always given plenty of warnings about the path ahead. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ has been repeated down the centuries to those who will not listen, exactly because it…
“If Goethe had been stolen away a child, and reared in a robber band in the depths of a German forest, do you think the world would have had Faust and Iphigenie? But he would…
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all…
“What is consciousness? This may sound like a simple question but it is not. Consciousness is at once the most obvious and the most difficult thing we can investigate … How on earth can the…
“When we think of meditation we need to let go of the idea that enlightenment is an altered state of consciousness that we can somehow attain.” Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent…