We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“If we want to understand its imprint, we must put silence in context. This allows us to retreat, reflect, rejuvenate, and gain… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that… — James Levine Copy Share Image
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people,… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir.… — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
