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Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.
If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.
To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.
When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!
Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.
Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.
Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.
We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.