More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.
A Cherokee man’s most prized possession, the gun, was also his most disastrous acquisition, marking the beginning of Cherokee dependence… No Cherokee could make a gun, keep it in repair, or manufacture powder.
I think if you don't trust in yourself, it helps to trust in something else.
I just want the opportunity to transcend my personal boundaries and the only way you can do that is by latching on to other people's coat-tails.
I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.
We rely on our partners, but if we're not stable within, we crumble in our relationships, too.
