That Is Life. Quotes
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM
A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.
When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.
He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.
Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.
He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face.
War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative.
Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?
, "I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.
the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.
He wished to please everybody, " Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave expectations.
No matter how much you learn in college, it never prepares you for the real world.
When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.
Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.
Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.
Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.
We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
As you start your day, are you wondering what you will reap, or are you wondering what you will sow?
Most principles are limp until they are tested.
I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment
The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved
Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.
Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.