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I have always regarded the feet as the most intimate and personal part of our bodies, and not the genitals, not the heart, or even the brain, organs of no great significance that are too highly valued.
Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits.
the best conversations are with yourself. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.
Killing has become exempt from punishment. And as it goes unpunished, nobody notices it anymore. And as nobody notices it, it doesn’t exist.
Crime has come to be regarded as a normal, everyday activity. Everyone commits it. That’s just how the world would look if concentration camps became the norm. Nobody would see anything wrong with them.”
What sort of a world is this, where killing and pain are the norm? What on earth is wrong with us?”
“One has to tell people what to think. There’s no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.”
“From nature’s point of view no creatures are useful or not useful. That’s just a foolish distinction applied by people.”
Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.
Perhaps that’s the whole point of prayer—to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but simply to sort out your own mind. That should be enough.
The fact that we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future is a terrible mistake in the programming of the world.
Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?
