Great Throughts Treasury

"This 'real' nature with whose revelation the Chan Masters are primarily concerned, or the Atman-'I' of the Vedantists, is not the far-off, unreachable will-o'-the-wisp we are apt to imagine, but just the within of which we know the without. It is just the other side of the medal, and it lies wherever our senses and our intellect cease to function." - Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray

"The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope." - Wendell Berry

"When the personality or ego begins to take charge of dreams and possesses the dynamics ….a mishandling of the Holy Forces occurs. Really…the ego is the witness to the Self/Ego/Shadow development." - W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

"He registered a dizzy 7.6 mmv over Brodmann 32, the area of abstractive activity. Since that time I have learned that a reading over 6 generally means that a person has so abstracted himself from himself and from the world around him, seeing things as theories and himself as a shadow, that he cannot, so to speak, reenter the lovely ordinary world. Such a person, and there are millions, is destined to haunt the human condition like the Flying Dutchman." - Walker Percy

"A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power." - Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"We learn to escape from self-defeating behavior in small ways at first. You can do this by thinking of present situations where you now say YES but wish you could stop. Recall several small situations. Perhaps you have agreed to meet regularly with a friend or relative but realize that it is really a burden. Maybe you agreed to take the leadership in a certain project but now you wish you had declined. You now know WHERE you must say NO. The next step is also clear. SAY NO. Make the necessary contact and resign. Just like that. Do it even if you feel nervous about it. Don’t listen to your timidity. Do what is right. Do you know what you are doing! You are getting your life back!" - Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

"Carry with thy voice, O drum, lack of heart, and failure of courage among the enemies. Disagreement, dismay, and fright, do we place into the enemies, beat them down, O drum." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes. No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)" -

"The worst effect of sin is within, and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

"Men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her." - Elizabeth Gould Davis

"Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us." - Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal

"It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Every day people fixes her hair, why not the heart?" - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selvesÂ… The stages of human development are to strive for Possession (Artha), Knowledge (Dharma), Ability (Kama), Being (Moksha)Â… Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge. It has nothing to do with individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further – when man dies his karma lives and creates for itself another carrier." - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"If we're trying to set education policy, we have to listen to the education experts." - Eugene Peterson

"I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority)." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh