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I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.
Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.
Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.
Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.
Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.
One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!
There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.
You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.
Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.
Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.
The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.
This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.
Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.
If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.
The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.
The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.
Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.
God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.
Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other.
The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.