Ram Dass Says: “As long as you have certain desires…”
Ram Dass Says: “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
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Ram Dass Says: “A feeling of aversion or attachment…”
Ram Dass Says: “A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”
Plato says: “Wise men speak because they have something…”
Plato says: “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
Plato says: “Whenever someone, on seeing something…”
Plato says: “Whenever someone, on seeing something, realizes that that which he now sees wants to be like some other reality but falls short and cannot be like that other since it is inferior, do we agree that one who…
Plato says: “When men speak ill of thee…”
Plato says: “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
Plato says: “When I began to talk with him, I could not help…”
Plato says: “When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to…
Plato says: “What a strange thing that…”
Plato says: “What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time.…
Plato says: “Wealth is the parent of luxury…”
Plato says: “Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”
Plato says: “Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due…”
Plato says: “Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the…
Plato says: “To be afraid of death is only another form…”
Plato says: “To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death…