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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
Whenever you respect and admire a spiritual quality, it starts to grow in yourself.
The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.
The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.
If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.
When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.
Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.
Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.
Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.
You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.
It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.
They were connected, one being, fused together. She belonged to him, and he to her.
I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out.
You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.
Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.
Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.
Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.
Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!