Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.
Alexandra David-Neel"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."
Alexandra David-NeelWho knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
Alexandra David-Neel