K. Eric Drexler Quotes

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Infinite riches in a little room.

That which sufficeth is not little.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.