Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

He did it for that bubbling, champagne-in-the-veins high, that desire to be part of someone else’s new life, someone else’s realised potential.Vampires must feel like that.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.

I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

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