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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.
I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.
It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.
People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?
The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.
If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.
As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.
According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.
Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.
It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.
To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.
Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.
Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.
Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.
It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.
Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.
There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.
Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.
I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.
Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.
The issue isn't what you're struggling with, it's how you deal with what you're struggling with
We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.
The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not