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As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.
We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.
Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.” Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.
Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.
it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.
Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.
If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.