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The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.
Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.
The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.
Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.
Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.
There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.
There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.
Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.
When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.
The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.
When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?
He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.
I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.
Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.
If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.
There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.
But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.