“It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.” ThinkingWritingHelpingHumanityWishCompassionCasesEnlightenmentVariousDrivingScripture Author:Frederick Lenz
“I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.” KnowsMenGivingMayLittlesMatterActionCoursesAsksWishAdviceDutyStressAskingLaysIntentionDetermineVariousFirmEnlightenedExpediencyGiving Advice Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.” IfsMayWishSocialEnjoyLonelinessOughtSolitudeSilentVariousEmptinessGet AwayHatefulMisanthropic Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their belief.” BelieveDifferentBodyBeliefWishCreationMonthsKissingVariousBelieverDestroyedFulfillmentVisitors Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.” WorldPersonsDoeChristianPainWishRealizingThis WorldGainsVariousRefuseAccomplishChristian LifeThis LifeTreatmentOrthodoxMisfortunesDistressHealed Author:Maximus the Confessor