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Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind, weeding out the thoughts of lack, limitation, and negativity. You must nurture and tend the thoughts of happiness, success, and purpose.
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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.
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Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.
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Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
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After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.
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Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.
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Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
