“Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.”

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.

The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.

Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system.

Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.

Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.

So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.