It Is In The Heart. Quotes
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.
If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.
You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.
One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure
Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.
