The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
Both the good and the pleasant present themselves to a man. The calm soul examines them well and discriminates. Yes, he prefers the good to the pleasant; but the fool chooses the pleasant out of greed and avarice.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
