#philosophy

"But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair."

"To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness."

"Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings."

"Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?"

"If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality."

"Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy."

"For an act to be evil, you must first perceive it, process and then conceive it as such. Then these acts are effects. They’re not causes. And by this I mean that these acts are not of Stream. Now we ask the other question again. What does it take for something, here specifically Stream, to be good or evil?"

"Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)"

"The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability."

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated."

"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."

"Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature."

"No one is responsible for your inner peace and inner joy except for you."

"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."

"The more I love, the more I find that life is magical."

"...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy."

"♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death."