"Security" (1951); excerpted in Outlaw Journalist: The Life & Times of Hunter S. Thompson (2008), page 15
1950s
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Letter to L.A. Avilova (April 29, 1892)
Letters
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Context: [A]ll men die.... A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. but above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man. And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. Someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop — and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable. And what is death? an end to trouble. An end to strife and fear.... Bear this in mind when you decide your future.
“The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.”
Source: The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching
William Cowper Prime in The Old House by the River (1853); first misattributed to Hawthorne in Notable Thoughts about Women: A Literary Mosaic (1882) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 239
Misattributed
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 48
“The Brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”
Source: How to Fall in Love
“He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
