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... utterly ordinary with no pretensions of being special. To me that is the experience of godliness. It is not a question of becoming powerful, otherwise it is the same trip. Somebody is becoming powerful through money, somebody else is becoming powerful through politics, somebody else is becoming powerful through celibacy, somebody is becoming powerful through prayer, God-realization, arousal of the...
... very substantial amount so he decided to close the account. He arrived at the bank teller's window and announced that he wanted to withdraw all his money. The young teller was taken by surprise so he asked him if something had gone wrong. The Chinaman explained very carefully that he was going to get married and go on his honeymoon. Then the teller said, "Just take what you need for your...
... immediate requirements." When the man insisted on closing the account, the teller summoned the manager who tried to influence the man into changing his mind. He explained to him two or three times that if he took out all his money he would lose the interest. But the laundryman was not to be talked out of his plan and he finally walked out of the bank with all he had on deposit. A few weeks later the...
... one hundred and twenty million dollars per year from his listeners for God's work, and just now he has been found to be having a love affair with a woman; and his wife was having a love affair with another man. And all that money that he was collecting in the name of God was being used by himself. Another Christian preacher in Oklahoma threatened his listeners. He has a two-hundred-foot high tower...
... from where he preaches to his television viewers. He threatened, "God has asked me to collect eight million dollars within two months, and if I don't collect eight million dollars I will be dead." Naturally people started pouring money in. He collected eight million dollars in two months, and now somebody is suing him in court as a representative of God. In fact he is suing God for...
... project their ambitions onto me." I said to the boy, "Learn to say no. There is no need to become insane. Assert what you want to become and risk everything for it, and you will never be miserable. You may not become very rich, you may not become very famous, but who bothers about fame? And money cannot buy anything that is really meaningful. If you have a deep contentment that whatever you...
.... Zarathustra's superman has not to be confused with the higher man. The superman is a discontinuity with man as he is. For the superman the higher man has to die - with all his knowledge, all his virtue, all his ego - and give place to a pure consciousness, like that of a child. The higher man is a continuity. It is the same old man decorated with money, with spirituality, with religiousness, with...
... HIGHER MAN, TO SEEK HIM OUT AND HELP HIM. HE LEAVES HIS CAVE, AND SETS OUT ON A PATH ON WHICH HE MEETS DIVERSE PEOPLE. FIRST, THE KINGS.... Obviously they think they are the highest human beings, because they possess so much - their territories, their kingdoms, their money, their power. Obviously they believe they are higher. And the kings have been forcing poets to sing songs in their praise, forcing...
... power; they were cunning, crude, and they managed to rule portions of humanity - the emperor of China is a direct descendant of God. And all these people have nothing which can be called higher; it can only be called lower. They are more animalistic, more lustful for power, for money, for women. And still we continue to think of them as higher men. Zarathustra wants to remind you that your higher men...
... Chicago, New York or other large cities, an actual meeting with the Jew in this minor capacity will not be frequent. The Jew is the possessor of the wholesale stocks; he is the director of the underground railways that convey the stuff surreptitiously to the public; seldom does he risk his own safety in being the last man to hand the goods to the consumer and to take the money. But notwithstanding all...
... drip with whisky patter. As all the plays making much noise this year are not only Jew-written, Jew-produced, and Jew-controlled, but also Jew-played (the stage swarms with Jewish countenances this year), the drip of whisky patter is constant. If theatergoers were at all observant they would see that most of their money goes to support pro-Jewish propaganda in one form or another, which, is of course...
... his memory. Since a debtor's landed property is pledged for his debts. The creditor, when they paid him the first fifty zuz. Thus pointing out that the money was not intended as a payment of the debt. He cannot again seize the land which is now the absolute property of the orphans. Whose mother married again after his father's death. During her second husband's lifetime. [H] (cf. supra p. 542, n. 4...
.... 'to free, save, rescue separate by force'). i.e., he accepted no responsibility whatsoever for the safety of the money advanced. As the heir of his mother. Contending that as he had accepted no responsibility he may now, like his mother, himself object to the sale and thus procure the amount of the kethubah for himself. The son. Of course he did. Though he may well cancel the sale on the ground that...
.... Why so? Because slaves are for service;10 beasts are for fattening. MISHNAH. IF ONE IS FORBIDDEN TO BENEFIT FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND HE PAYS HIM A VISIT [IN SICKNESS] HE MUST STAND, BUT NOT SIT; HE MAY AFFORD HIM A CURE OF LIFE, BUT NOT A CURE OF MONEY.11 - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Since it may not be eaten, he does not benefit through its...
... NOT SIT; HE MAY AFFORD HIM A CURE OF LIFE, BUT NOT A CURE OF MONEY.11 Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Since it may not be eaten, he does not benefit through its fattening. Why is it then permitted? This is on the assumption that the reference is to a na'arah, (v. Glos.), whose labour belongs to her father, and who in turn transfers it to her husband. And R. Huna...
... incidentally we also learn that guardians are appointed in case of Tam etc.] Between R. Jacob and R. Judah in the second cited Baraitha. Lit., 'atonement', or 'a sum of money', i.e., compensation paid for manslaughter committed by a beast in lieu of the life of the owner of the beast, as appears from Ex. XXI, 29-30; v. Glos. And not an ordinary civil obligation like damages. Ex. XXI, 30 I.e., between R...
... am I under a personal obligation7 to that party [who is your creditor], in virtue of the rule of R. Nathan, as it was taught,8 'R. Nathan says: Whence do we conclude that if A claims a maneh9 from B, and B [claims a similar sum] from C, the money is collected from C and [directly] handed over to A? From the statement of Scripture:10 And give it unto him against whom he hath...
... specification does not apply,2 whereas Ben 'Azzai maintained that the principle of a generalisation followed by a specification does apply.3 And should you ask why, according to Rabbi, was it necessary to insert 'bruise',4 [the answer would be that it was necessary to impose the payment of] additional money.5 IT HAS TO BE CALCULATED HOW MUCH A MAN OF EQUAL STANDING WOULD REQUIRE TO BE PAID...
... arrives].'32 If, on the other hand, the injured person says to the offender, 'Give the money to me personally as I will cure myself', he might retort 'You might neglect yourself and thus get from me too much.' Even if the injured person says to him, 'Make it a fixed and definite sum', he might object and say, 'There is all the more danger that you might neglect yourself [and thus remain a cripple...
... creates dullness and stupidity and nothing else - one becomes more and more alert, more and more aware. One starts living in new ways, one starts searching for new styles of being. That search is sannyas. One is fed up with the ordinary world, one has seen all the games: the game of money and power and ego. One has lived through it and one has seen that nothing is there; it is much ado about nothing...
..., and whatsoever man can do will never satisfy him. Something from the beyond has to happen as a grace, as a gift. All that we can do is to become receptive to that gift. So enjoy being, walking, swimming, sitting. Slow down! In the beginning it seems almost as if you are becoming lazy, mm? because so much has been put in the head:'Be active, do this, do that. Time is money - don't miss it. Life is...
... - more rich, more powerful, more spiritual, more religious, more artistic. But one has to become something, then one will be happy. So happiness is postponed and then postponing becomes your habit. When you have more money, then too the problem will be the same; you will postpone. You will say, 'How can one be happy with only this much money ? More is needed. When I have more I will be happy. One can...
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