“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” — Lao Tzu
“There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?” ― His Holiness The Dalai Lama XIV
“Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.” — Zen Master Dogen
“Let not the opinions of man interfere with the directions given to you by God.”
Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us”.
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are”.
“It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.” — Osho
“One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there simply to make you more clever… The most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our education and our knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.” — His Holiness The Dalai Lama XIV
“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” — Greek Philosopher, Antisthenes (444 B.C.–371 B.C.)
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
“The planet does not need more ‘successful’ people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.” — David Orr