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There are never enough “I-love-yous.” Lenny Bruce
There are never enough “I-love-yous.”
Lenny Bruce
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Ross
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Ross
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise. Baha’u’llah
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.
Baha’u’llah
To you I’m an atheist. To God I’m the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
To you I’m an atheist. To God I’m the loyal opposition.
Woody Allen
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or conviction. Dag Hammarskjold
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or conviction.
Dag Hammarskjold
Power always thinks it has great Soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service, when it is violating all his laws. John Adams
Power always thinks it has great Soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service, when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
So it was that I had discovered, for instance, that selfishness is not usually a failure of will, it is not that one deliberately sees a selfish and unselfish attitude and chooses the selfish. It is that one is selfish because one unwittingly indulges in a kind of thinking which cannot, by its very nature, recognize the realness of other people’s needs. Joanna Field, A Life of One’s Own
So it was that I had discovered, for instance, that selfishness is not usually a failure of will, it is not that one deliberately sees a selfish and unselfish attitude and chooses the selfish. It is that one is selfish because one unwittingly indulges in a kind of thinking which cannot, by its very nature, recognize the realness of other people’s needs.
Joanna Field, A Life of One’s Own
When a memory is too much, turn to the eye. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
When a memory is too much, turn to the eye.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events. Jack Yeats from John Berger, Permanent Red
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
Jack Yeats from John Berger, Permanent Red
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. Edmund Wilson
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Edmund Wilson
Burn all the maps to your body. Richard Brautigan
Burn all the maps to your body.
Richard Brautigan
The next message you need is always right where you are. Ram Dass
The next message you need is always right where you are.
Ram Dass
I really think I write about everyday life. I don’t think I’m quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring. Edward Gorey
I really think I write about everyday life. I don’t think I’m quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.
Edward Gorey
There wouldn’t be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere. Sufi proverb
There wouldn’t be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.
Sufi proverb
One day when the children were playing, they reported to Yasoda, “Krishna has eaten dirt.” Yasoda scolded him and said, “You naughty boy, why have you eaten dirt?” “I haven’t,” said Krishna. “All the boys are lying. If you believe them instead of me, look at my mouth yourelf.” “Then open up,” she said to the god, and he opened his mouth. Yasoda saw in his mouth the whole universe and she saw her own village and herself. She became frightened and confused, thinking: “Is this a dream of an illusion fabricated by God? Or is it a delusion in my own mind?” And then she thought: “God’s power of delusion inspires in me such false beliefs as, ‘I exist,’ ‘This is my husband,’ ‘This is my son.’ ” Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities
One day when the children were playing, they reported to Yasoda, “Krishna has eaten dirt.”
Yasoda scolded him and said, “You naughty boy, why have you eaten dirt?”
“I haven’t,” said Krishna. “All the boys are lying. If you believe them instead of me, look at my mouth yourelf.”
“Then open up,” she said to the god, and he opened his mouth. Yasoda saw in his mouth the whole universe and she saw her own village and herself. She became frightened and confused, thinking: “Is this a dream of an illusion fabricated by God? Or is it a delusion in my own mind?”
And then she thought: “God’s power of delusion inspires in me such false beliefs as, ‘I exist,’ ‘This is my husband,’ ‘This is my son.’ ”
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. A Course in Miracles
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
A Course in Miracles
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Rainer Maria Rilke
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Close one sad eye. Yes. Close the other sad eye. Yes. I can see now. Yehuda Amichai
Close one sad eye. Yes. Close the other sad eye. Yes. I can see now.
Yehuda Amichai