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The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man’s knowledge is comparatively limited and so his wisdom must be small, unless he can connect his mind with a knowledge greater than his own and draw from it, by inspiration, the wisdom that his own limitations deny him. Only God knows all truth; therefore only God can have Real wisdom or know the right thing to do at all times, and man can receive wisdom from God. Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .

I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

The typical Walmart today offers you 100,000 products.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.