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I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.
In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.
Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.
What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.
Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.
Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.