Issue 319
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
- The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
- Greed is the root cause of all sins. Greed is the cause of all problems that one faces. Greed fuels the growth of enemies. Excessive greed destroys one's life.
- Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
- The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. Restrain your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transiency of your life, you will be able to desist from greed and anger and will be able to avoid all evils.
- When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.
- Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.