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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.
but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.
Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.
Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.
God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.
Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.
The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.
Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.
There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.
The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.
Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.
Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.
How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.
There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.
Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.
I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.
Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.
When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.
Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined
The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.
Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.
When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.
If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them.