Meditating 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 VAUGHANThe wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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