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Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.
I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.
now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.
When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.
While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.
The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.
It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.