the most important thing

"The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 is that I can't waste any more time doing things I don't want to do." - Jep Gambardella

the path

"One of the directives given to me was to start the Ashram . . . At first, I don't think my idea was on sanyas (renunciation) as much as it was on having the availability to seek the Lord, to be able to study spiritual scriptures and just to really immerse myself in living the spiritual life as much as possible. My children, I had raised them, my husband has passed some years ago. I had reached a point where most of my duties as householder were fulfilled. It gave me the time to want to see, to want to strive, to want to devote quality time, because, you know the work of a woman is so full! I mean it's sometimes twenty four hours. So once that was reduced, I had additional time that I could apply to the path, and that's what I've been doing." - alice

it's good

"it is good when a man can think for himself" - burning spear

hero vs nation

"The community today is the planet, not the bounded nation [...] The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego [...] And the numerous saints of this anticult - namely the patriots whose ubiquitous photographs, draped with flags, serve as official icons - are precisely the local threshold guardians [...] whom it is the first problem of the hero to surpass." - joseph

the hero

"To a man not led astray from himself by sentiments stemming from the surfaces of what he sees, but courageously responding to the dynamics of his own nature-to a man who is, as Nietzsche phrases it, 'a wheel rolling of itself'-difficulties melt and the unpredictable highway opens as he goes." - joseph.