The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so.
02039 – Ain’t So!
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02026 – Not Knowing What the Poor Suffer
One great reason why the rich, in general, have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is, that according to the common observation, one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know because...
01949 – Trust Me to Carry It for You
So the line had stuck in my head. “Sex,” I was pretty sure, meant whether you were a boy or girl, and “sin” made Tante Jans very angry, but what the two together meant I could not imagine. And so, seated next to Father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked,...
01837 – How to Help Ourselves
Fear can accumulate in our body, causing stress and tension. Rest is a precondition for healing. When animals in the forest get wounded, they find a place to lie down, and they rest completely for many days. They don’t think about food or anything else. They just...
01807 – Empathy, the Highest Form of Knowledge
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.
01755 – Children Need a Laptop
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles--someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals, and knowledge of a hundred previous...
01407 – Travel the Road by Yourself
Not I, nor anyone else,can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It is within reach.Perhaps you have been on it since you were born,and did not know.Perhaps it is everywhere--on water and land.
01099 – Responsibilities: Master vs. Servant
It is true the servant does not know what the master is doing, but that has its bright side. The servant doesn't take his work home with him. For him the day ends when he puts aside the shovel and the hoe. But sometimes the master is up all night, pacing and worrying....
00228 – Arriving at Your Destination
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way...
00021 – Gospel as Silence
Let us then tell the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of our own lives, of your life and my life. It is life with the sound turned off so that for a moment or two you can experience it, not in terms of the words you make it bearable...