Once we accumulate things it is very difficult to let go of our possessions.
We appear to be rich, but our dependence on material wealth makes us poor for, as Thoreau wrote, "a
man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can
afford to let alone."
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Liberation
Therapy can help you manage the disease, but only the Truth can liberate you from the obsessions, compulsions, and disorders of egotism.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
War
The spiritual journey is an all out war against the evolutionary forces which we inherited from our primate ancestors.
We must learn to tame the savage animal within us before it breaks out of its civilized cage without warning.
We must learn to tame the savage animal within us before it breaks out of its civilized cage without warning.
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A Lazy Approach
If you work hard at being lazy, you are a hard worker.
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Eric Hoffer is a great American not because he was an exceptional man, but because he was an ordinary man who was exceptional.
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The ego eclipses true intelligence.