The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
BILL VAUGHANThe true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
BILL VAUGHANThe work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
BILL VAUGHANThe best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
BILL VAUGHANOur lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
BILL VAUGHANOne advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
BILL VAUGHANI believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
BILL VAUGHANWhat the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
BILL VAUGHANDemocracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
BILL VAUGHANGoal achievement is hero’s work.
BILL VAUGHANThere is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
BILL VAUGHANIt’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
BILL VAUGHANMan is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
BILL VAUGHANIt would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHANContraries are cured by contraries.
BILL VAUGHANMeditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
BILL VAUGHANOne in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
BILL VAUGHAN