Al David Quotes
It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.
Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.
It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.
Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.
There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.
So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.
White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions
Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.
What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.
I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha. Why is that so hard for my fellow Christians to grasp?
Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.
The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.
If you haven’t been made uncomfortable by the teachings of Jesus, you probably haven’t understood them.
Giants too need a shoulder to lean on. They might be the shoulder to stand on when they're on their feet.
It takes compassion to truly understand another person.
The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.
We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way
For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.
We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?
Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.
We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)
Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.
People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart
Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.
The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.
Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit, commercial values, and great wealth.
So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but applaud when somebody accumulates more money than they can spend? They're both hoarders.
All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright
It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.
...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.
When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.
Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.
Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.
It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.
There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. — Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972
We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see.
Every time, Love pushed down the door where her loneliness lived. The Music came and sealed the chamber of her heart. She was filled with clear sweetness that was there from the start.
Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.
When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.