Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy – it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Source: Eric Hoffer, in Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), page: 49.

Let’s not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Source: James Thurber, in the foreword to Lanterns & Lances (1961). Complete Sentence: Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light … We all know that, as the old adage Read More…

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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’

Source: As quoted by Coretta Scott King in The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Second Edition (2011), Ch. “Community of man”, page: 3. Complete Sentence: An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. Every person must decide at Read More…