In a heart-centered life -- acquiring more things, more status and more recognition lose significance, while beauty as given, wonder as given, wisdom as given and laughter as given greatly gain significance.
The things you do not have to say make you rich.
Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk.
Hearing the things you do not have to hear dulls your hearing.
And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Faith makes all things possible, not easy.
Love and hate are opposites. If people say love is the most important thing in the world, then what is hate?
Except for love, the only things worth having are things you can remember not having.
Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.
The more things I learn the worse it gets. Knowledge might be power, but knowledge can quickly become a brain gone crazy.
Finding God in All Things
Material things are not to be despised -- without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
