“A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.” DesireAtheismPreparedCrowdsPositive AtheismSavagesMobileRealisationImpulsive Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.” MenDesireBeliefDifficultYouthDespairSpringPreparedInjusticePrivilegeDisappointmentOptimisticAgonyOutrageHopefulness Book:The Galantrys Source: The Galantrys
“Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.” WantShouldSelfMomentsLastsDesirePracticeImpossibleSeriousPreparedBowsBe PreparedWant USelf CenteredTrue Nature Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind