Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

When had things gotten so tangled in her heart and mind? Everything had been clear at one point, hadn’t it? No, she supposed it never had been perfectly clear.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

Genius is both the sail and the wind

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.