Ray Quotes

Beware the autumn people

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.

Give space to life. Give time to sprout your potential - the potential to awaken the beauty in you. Awaken the beauty of your heart - the beauty of your spirit. There are infinite possibilities.

To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs to realize the illusory nature of the body.

To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

You need bravery because in the picture of soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.