Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.
Democracy works. Against us.