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A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.
Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives.
We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.
In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.
You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely.
My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.
As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.
If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.
We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.
Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.
If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.
Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.
If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.
There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine.
The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow
God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression