It Is A Way. Quotes

if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.

A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.

Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel

The complexities of life can never be untangled by man

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

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.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.

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.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

People aren't born sad

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

Everything man needs is in the world.

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

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.

I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.

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.

Never wanted it to be an imposition, I am alone & will find my way alone.

From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.

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.

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

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

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

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better

... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.

the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil

seven times down, eight times up

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.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

I've always been like that

Seven times up, eight times down

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

Kiss is another physical gesture if it doesn't touch your soul.

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

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 kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...

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.