It Is A Way. Quotes

Sometimes humility is ego in disguise.

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.

The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.

Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don’t need anything else.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind

The journey of Transformation is a sacred one.

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.

Seven times up, eight times down

I've always been like that

For as long as space remains, For as long as sentient beings remain, Until then may I too remainTo dispel the miseries of the world.

seven times down, eight times up

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil

... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating

Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.

Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

The Heart of Fairyland is a story, " she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.

For me, there is a strange beauty in remembering.

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood.

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.

I can overlook the lie

I don't own you, you just belong to me.

We'll get there!

Change yourself, and others will follow.

It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world.

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

The barbeque is the root of all civilization