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Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.
I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.
You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.
For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!
Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.
The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.
I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.
As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.
From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.
The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.
We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.