For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

Jesus had the ministry of light (knowledge).

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby