If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our selfesteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn at all.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
