Uncategorized Quotes - Page 15

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself

Scripture states that it is the people of darkness who are supposed to be afraid of us, the carriers of light.

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

at first sight everyone seems like human.

Know yourself, not a face, in love, a deeper grace.

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.

Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

Every time you cry, your tears put out my candle.

So you’re saying they don’t want to kill us, they want to fuck us?”“At that level of desire the two acts are interchangeable, sir.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

God wants to hear about our cares, not because he needs to hear but because we need to tell him.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn't interest them. They don't want to know about my feelings or my glands or anything below my neck. I could just as well be a severed head carried into the classroom to lecture to them from a dish.

But Krishna was a chameleon.

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes.

There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday afternoon couple laughing in a park would splinter it completely.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.

There is only one reason of YOUR failure..'You

We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness.

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life.

Surround yourself with people who are the ketchup to your french fries-they make you a better version of yourself. Yes french fries are amazing on their own, but combined with ketchup they are a force. Spend time with people who bring out your true flavors, but don’t overpower you.

One is in 'Waiting'Even after it's overGrief comes to stayNever up for closure...There is no escape everOne is always yearningGrief envelops thoseLeft behind in 'waiting'...‘Staying stuck’ in painHiding deep in the heart'Let go' ! Yes, but howTo make a new start...One has to live in theDark blind ‘Black-hole’Until Light would graceRekindling a 'Whole'(Page 49)

It's a wonderful thought that everyday has something to celebrate.

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

Didn't know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again.

Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to grow. If a relationship is causing us grief, the ocean breeze will continue to blow. Taking a breathe away from our challenges, and recognizing the nature around us, can help open the door to our Divine nature and allow the healing to begin.

Like you're taking the universe by thethroat and saying, look, I know Ican never be as big as you, but yousure as hell can't stop me from trying.Like taking the sadness and wringingit out and saying, look, I knowyou won't leave me alone, but yousure as hell can't stop me living.

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

If a wizard should take up residence in your garden, and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity.One could drownwaiting for the poorto makeone fine distinction.Yes, destroy ussay the richand you losethe rootsof God.

Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there.

He stared at the corner of the yellowed ceiling, at the spider web and its solitary occupant. “Why here?” he asked the spider. “You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t moved even an inch in the last week. Maybe it was dead. Dead and crisp like the untouched wasp carcass on his window sill.

There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for that moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive. It is no wonder that we make terrible choices in our lives to avoid loneliness.

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know

Only the living water can satisfied our thirst.

I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

The half-moon westers low, my love,And the wind brings up the rain;And wide apart lie we, my love,And seas between the twain.I know not if it rains, my love, In the land where you do lie;And oh, so sound you sleep, my love,You know no more than I.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

Enjoy every moment of your life on earth.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

The twilight seems invidious.It simply can’t let the sun hide away when darkness is just another name for night..

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

We Are All Capable of Great Things