That Is Life. Quotes
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.
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.
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
Time is just quantified eternity.
I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
The world is evil only when you become its slave.
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
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.
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.
Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
A troubled life beats having no life at all
When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.
It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.
Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.
Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
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