Thetorment of human

Thetorment of human
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
  

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Conflictisn't negative, it just is.
The greatest prayer is patience.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned
If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.
Dig a well before you are thirsty.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.