The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. His prescribed food is animal flesh. But man’s food is vegetables, fruits, grains, and milk products.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Blessed with a priceless life, why should I not fit it with compassion for all beings?
If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
