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Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.
Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.
One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.
The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.
I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.
I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.
One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow.
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.
One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.