The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult…

I like when any system makes summary on its own. And System here I mean not the Facebook’s annoying “Review your month”, “Review your year”, “Review your friendship”. The system I mean, for example, Google Maps, which I use with…

With the New Year’s Eve approaching, with common tradition of planning and giving yourself promises for the next year, and close to further uncertainty of our life, I’ve remembered one of the greatest military strategists of 20th century, who is…

Sansho once said If someone comes I go out to meet him but not for his sake Koke said If someone comes I don’t go out If I do go out I go out for his sake

A lesser light asks Ummon: What are the activities of a sramana Ummon answers: I have not the slightest idea. The dim light then says: Why haven’t you any idea? Ummon replies: I just want to keep my no-idea

So, you see, in the beginning was the Word. And the Word became flesh in the cloth of human universe. But only a poet can expand the universe by paving a way to new realities, like ship with Hawking engine…

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.