QUOTES
I love words. I am a collector of quotes. Enjoy!
"Opening our
breath is a key to untying our internal knots so that our love can fully express itself."
David Deida, Way of the Superior
Lover
Emotional ups and downs, as well as sexual kinks and twists, are not obstacles, but self-shaped doorways that beckon us - repeatedly - by arousing and frustrating our deepest desires for divine openness and passionate surrender.
David Deida, Finding God Through Sex
"Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie."
David Deida, Naked Buddhism
"It is never too late to be who you might have been."
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
"There is nothing in death or life, in the realm of spirits or superhuman powers, nothing in all creation that can separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus Our Lord."
Dr. Ralph Stone, "A Celebration: Featuring the Music from Godspell"
Sex must not remain sex; that is the Tantra teaching. It must be transformed into love. And love also must not remain love. It must be transformed into light, into meditative experience, into the last, ultimate, mystic peak.
Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
And the day came when the risk that it took to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man always over me. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, to cling to all that I am capable of doing but I am eager to be pursued, and possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."
Anais Nin
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach, Illusions
"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours."
Richard Bach, Illusions
Your sweet blasphemy is your truest devotion.
Rumi
It is no sign of mental health to be well-adjusted to an insane world.
The Dalai Lama
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
- Steven Covey
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling
It is our duty - as men and women - to behave as though limits to our ability do not exist. We are co-creators of the Universe.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Come, come whoever you are. This caravan knows no despair.
Even though you have broken your vows, perhaps ten thousand times.
Come, come again."
- Learned at Dances of Universal Peace (Sufi Dances)
"A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Health is a result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly."
- A Course in Miracles
If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen.
- A Course in Miracles, Text, pg 57, 1st ed.
"If you don't know, it's not time."
- Donald Epstein
It is impossible to remember God in secret and alone. For remembering Him means you are not alone, and are willing to remember it.
- A Course in Miracles, T-14.X.10
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert
"Love cannot be channeled to one object. If you have one love object and channel all of your love there, what you are experiencing is attachment. Similarly, if you are jealous, you are not experiencing love, you are experiencing attachment. If you really love, then you'll experience an overflowing, you will experience love for all. It's a natural consequence of loving."
- William Pennell Rock
Lovely to see you again, my friend. Walk along with me to the next bend.
- Moody Blues
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
What this world needs more of is loving: sweaty, friendly and unashamed.
- Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond The Sunset
You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
- J. R. R. Tolkein
The measure of a man is his ability to handle paradox.
- Carl Jung
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of being the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins
If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
- Steven Covey
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius
All healing is essentially the release from fear.
- A Course in Miracles
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is the Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
- Spider Robinson
A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.
- A Course in Miracles
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
- Kahlil Gibran
Problems that have no meaning cannot be resolved within the framework they are set.
- A Course in Miracles, Lesson 96.3
Problems cannot be solved by the same mindset that created them
- Albert Einstein
Ford grabbed him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from a telephone company accounts department.
- Douglas Adams
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
- Anna Louise Strong
Anopsotherapy is based on the discovery that when a human being eats any food in its original state, its taste changes from pleasant to unpleasant. This means that when the organism has filled its need for that particular food, it no longer wants any more (even though it may still be hungry.)
- Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition,
The therapist sees in the patient all that he has not forgiven in himself, and is thus given another chance to look at it, open it to re-evaluation and forgive it. ... The patient is his screen for the projection of his sins, enabling him to let them go.
- A Course in Miracles (P-2.VI.6:3)
A towel it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Script
Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 130
Whoever is saner at the time the threat is perceived should remember how deep is his indebtedness to the other and how much gratitude is due him, and be glad that he can pay his debt by bringing happiness to both. Let him remember this, and say:
I desire this holy instant for myself, that I may share it with my brother, whom I love. It is not possible that I can have it without him, or he without me. Yet it is wholly possible for us to share it now. And so I choose this instant as the one to offer to the Holy Spirit, that His blessing may descend on us, and keep us both in peace.
- A Course in Miracles, T-18.V.7
Though what I say and what I do, in all my days are often two, oh help me, oppressed by things undone, You Whose deeds and dreams are one.
- prayer heard on the radio while driving across country
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe