Young people are much too easily excited and then swept away in the maelstrom of the times; wealth and speed are what the world admires and everyone strives for; railroads, express letters, steamships, and every possible facility of communication – that’s what matters to the educated world: to outdo and out-learn one another and thereby […]

It would be hard to imagine a state of confusion greater than our own. Literacy gave us an eye for an ear and succeeded in detribalizing that portion of mankind that we refer to as the Western world. We are now engaged in an accelerated program of detribalization of all backward parts of the world […]

Know yourself – keep knowing yourself – and the rest will come. . Erik Homburger Erikson, German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. . Anonymous

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. . Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658)