-Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest be not thou the warrior.
-Look for the Warrior and let him fight in thee.
-Take his orders for battle and obey them.
-Obey him not as though he were a general, but as though he were thyself, and his spoken words were the utterance of thy secret desires; for he is thyself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than thyself. Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight thou mayest pass him; and he will not know thee unless thou knowest him. If thy cry reach his listening ear then will he fight in thee and fill the dull void within. And if this is so, then canst thou go through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him battle for thee. Then it will be impossible for thee to strike one blow amiss. But if thou look not for him, if thou pass him by, then there is no safeguard for thee. Thy brain will reel, thy heart grow uncertain, and in the dust of the battlefield thy sight and senses will fail, and thou wilt not know thy friends from thy enemies.
He is thyself, yet thou art but finite and liable to error. He is eternal and is sure.
He is eternal truth. When once he has entered thee and become thy Warrior, he will never utterly desert thee, and at the day of the great peace he will become one with thee.

Mabel Collins, “Light on the Path”

“Even a common, ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is. Wants to be better than what it is. And that is what we must be.” from “Indecent proposal” (1993)

David: Great architecture is only going to come from your passion. And even that won’t assure you a job. Louie Kahn, died in a men’s room in Penn Station for days no one claimed the body. (slide shows the Salk Institute) Look at that, is that beautiful? The money men did not weep, because the great ones are impossible to deal with, they’re a pain in the ass because they know that if they do their jobs properly, if they just once get it right they can actually lift the human spirit, take it to a higher place. (holds up a brick) What is this?
Student #1: A brick!
David: Good. What else?
Student #2: A weapon.
David: Louie Kahn said that even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is. Wants to be better than what it is. And that is what we must be. See ya on Friday.

“The whole trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell, “The Triumph of Stupidity,” 1933

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than “good job”.
J.K. Simmons as prof Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014)

“Those who don’t move don’t notice their chains.” Rosa Luxemburg