The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

In my end is my beginning.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.

Footfalls echo in the memorydown the passage we did not taketowards the door we never openedinto the rose garden. My words echothus, in your mind

What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.