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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers."
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
"The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level."
"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support."
"Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning."
"There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them."
"The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years."
"Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation."
"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target."
"I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know."
"God is the soul of the universe."
"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
"The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles."
"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions."
"Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade."
"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."
"I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord."
"Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness tohappen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of "I, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being."
"You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life."
"We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence."
"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."
"A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one as a curse. Because if one did not fulfill the terms of one's geas, one died. It was old magic, the magic of the gods, spoken in the tongues of those who controlled the dragons-and it was supposed to be extinct."
"When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights."
"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
"I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole."
"Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet, they were that much more dangerous because of it."
"We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia."
"It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around."
"If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born."
"Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death. Through saying "yes and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity."
"The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to."
"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."
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