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Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.
Allow everything else to vanish Save and except your cherished dreams, For your cherished dreams Are treasured sleeplessly By God Himself.
Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.
Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered
You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.
A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.
Trust in tomorrow...Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow. —Alex Morales to Miranda Evans
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.
Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.
The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.
The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.
Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.
We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.
The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.
One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.