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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.
You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.
Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!
It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.
For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.
When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.
You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.
A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.
If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.
Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power.