evolved ZEN

Mandatory Mindset

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? —Jack Kornfield

Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. —Charles Dickens

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom. —Herbie Hancock

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. —Menander

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. —Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. —Linus Pauling

The pretensions of final truth are always partly an effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. —Reinhold Niebuhr

Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life. —Robert Greene

Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own. —Harry S. Truman