Labor of Learning

Although Dewey's book is incredibly ill written, it seemed to me after several rereadings to have a feeling of intimacy with the inside of the cosmos that I found unequalled. So methought God would have spoken had He been inarticulate but keenly desirous to tell you how it was.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Holmes-Pollack Letters, Vol. 2, p. 287.

Learning is the new form of labor.
— Shoshana Zuboff

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: "What are you going through?"
— Waiting for God, Simone Weil

I overheard at a New Age whole life seminar: "Some of it seemed so gimicky."

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt

Therefore: God becomes as we are, that we may be as He is.
William Blake, There Is No Natural Religion

Abandon is a good word to describe what happens to a tennis player who feels he has nothing to lose. He stops caring about the outcome and plays all out. This is the true meaning of detachment ... it is caring, yet not caring; it is effortless effort. It happens when one lets go the attachment to the results of one's actions and allows the increased energy to come to bear on the action itself. In the language of karma yoga, this is called action without attachment to the fruits of action, and ironically when this state is achieved the results are the best possible.
— W. Timothy Gallway, The Inner Game of Tennis, p. 138.

[Paraphrase] Timothy Leary to Ram Das:
You know, memory is almost the most important thing; but, there is something greater — although I don't remember what it is.

A Libertarian is a Republican who doesn't believe in God. The "flat tax" is about greed.
Source unknown

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
— George Fernandes