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Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.
Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.
You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.
Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.
Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.
If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.
The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.
When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.
Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
You don't happen to have a thousand dollars I can borrow?" "I don't have five you can borrow. My piggy bank is officialy anorexic.
Gosh, it was nice talking to you, but I’ve got a lot of things I’d rather be doing. Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.