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We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.
If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.
She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.
The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.
The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought
It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.
I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.
Bible Code is a subject that is very controversial - most people in the world would not even know what we are talking about.
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.
Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.
In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.
If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.
'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
When I look in the mirror, I also see a mother and a wife and someone I am proud to be. I see an advocate. I see a survivor.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.
Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.
The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.
I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.