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- I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should…
- I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we…
- The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to…
- Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
- That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any…
- The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human…
- This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever…
- Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that…
- It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
- There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?'…
- So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my…
- We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
- How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause…
- This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's…
- There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you…
- The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients…
- I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is…
- In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of…
- My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She…
- We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why…
- This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of…
- I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our…
- The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join.…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong