It’s natural for us to imagine Heaven, but we are as far from the reality as the ant who dreams of chambers stuffed with bread crumbs, all her eggs gathered nearby, and Big Foot locked in Hell.
I'd be happy to follow the Zen master's advice to do everything with beginner's mind if someone would show me the starting line.
“There is nothing new under the sun” which doesn’t mean you’ll ever come close to seeing it all.
We can’t make the country great again if we haven’t first done the same to ourselves.
It’s fine to arrive at your host’s on foot when the sun is still shining. But after the wine has gone round and the chat is worn out, it’s nice to go home in a limo.
Jane Austen died in 1817 at age 41 of Hodgkins disease.
Doctors in our day could have saved her.
Her modern publisher would kill her:
“Dumb it down, Jane! Dumb it down.”
Thwarted cares build the dam that holds back Lake Anxiety.
It’s good to be helpful unless your help adds to the work of the helpee.
Babies are born with a clean mental slate: a tabla rasa.
We should start each day the same way.
What if babies refused their milk because it didn't meet their expectations.
Conservatives wonder why in heaven we need change when everything is fine and dandy.
Liberals wonder why on earth we fight change when everything is so messed up.
"It’s good to be helpful unless your help adds to the work of the helpee." I think I know where this little ditty springs forth, but I am not at liberty to say. (Query Inga)
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