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In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.
Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.
Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.
I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.
I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.
If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.
There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. It goes on forever.
The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.
The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.
You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.
It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.
What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.
It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.