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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
When it comes to communicating change at any time, the mission must be clear, and it must inspire.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.
The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.
Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.
It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love.
There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range.
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.
You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.
In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.
I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.
For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.
Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.
God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?
The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.
They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.
You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.
All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.
Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him
I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.
Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.
Who is she, why is she still here and when can I see her naked? Paris asked with an eyebrow wiggle
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.