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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.
[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.
If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.
Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.
Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.
Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.
If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.
Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.
Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.
My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.
I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.
The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.
Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.
The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.
One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.