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Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!
Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.
If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.
Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.
I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.
In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.
Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.
Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.
You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare.
I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.
I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.
It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.
The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.
To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.
It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.
The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.
I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.