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You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.
Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
When we're passionate about something, we have a positive attitude and embrace each day with a new outlook.
The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me.
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.
All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?
When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life.
I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart...
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass.
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.
Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.