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Quotes by Author
"Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy."
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"For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I don't live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics'."
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"It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human."
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"Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom."
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"What is GRACE? an individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! An elegance and divinity of one's beauty!"
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"But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life."
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"We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way."
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"The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it."
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"Gabby, Jenna cried. 'It's so horrible. I can't believe this happened.'Jenna, I said in a soothing voice, 'I'm alive and okay. No worries.She sniffled into the phone. 'No, it's not that.I waited a beat. 'What?'The bridesmaid dresses are all wrong! she wailed.'Wait a second, I said. 'You aren't upset over my being dead for four days?'I knew you'd be fine, she explained, brushing off the subject. 'But these dresses? I don't know what to do. They're the wrong color, and they're hideous! She went into a hysterical fit of tears."
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"Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder."
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"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
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"Religion poisons everything."
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"Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first."
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"It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know."
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"And somewhere amidst the storm raging inside, between the twilight of lust and desire, entwined within the whirlwind of swirling emotions, it happened. In one lightning strike, the illusion crumbled. For I realised the naked truth..."
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"Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not."
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"You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation."
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"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."
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"You cannot live with a paw in each world."
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"It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point."
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"Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure..."
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"I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now."
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"Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed."
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"Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief."
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"God is not against money, He is against the money been used outside His purpose."
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"Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
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"Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair."
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"It is not an exaggeration to say that play is as basic to your child's total development as good food, cleanliness, and rest."
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"Always think about how you can contribute and never think of how you can receive a contribution."
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"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."
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"Women are mere 'beauties' in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable. A beautiful heroine is a contradiction in terms, since heroism is about individuality, interesting and ever changing, while 'beauty' is generic, boring, and inert. While culture works out moral dilemmas, 'beauty' is amoral: If a woman is born resembling an art object, it is an accident of nature, a fickle consensus of mass perception, a peculiar coincidence--but it is not a moral act. From the 'beauties' in male culture, women learn a bitter amoral lesson--that the moral lessons of their culture exclude them."
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"I'm not your boyfriend! I snapped, trying to gently move her hands away from my body.'How can you say that? Sara asked in horror.'It's shockingly effortless, I replied. 'My vocal chords vibrate, and my mouth and tongue articulate. I can even do it without thinking. I had to remind myself to stay calm, and sarcasm was the best way to do that.'When are you going to give me a key to your house so I don't have to knock like some guest? Sara asked, coming at me again.I backed away. 'How about never? Is never good for you?Sara, undeterred, said, 'You're the reason I go to therapy on Fridays.'The plot thickens! Gabby exclaimed for comedic relief."
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"For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, 'Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened, ' He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love."
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