It Is A Way. Quotes

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

The Heart of Fairyland is a story, " she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.

Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better

... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil

seven times down, eight times up

For as long as space remains, For as long as sentient beings remain, Until then may I too remainTo dispel the miseries of the world.

I've always been like that

Seven times up, eight times down

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.

The journey of Transformation is a sacred one.

Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don’t need anything else.

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

Sometimes humility is ego in disguise.

Life is for service.

She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way

I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty, while my brain was dark and full

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

... the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...

Kiss is another physical gesture if it doesn't touch your soul.

I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

God wants you to bless Him because it’s the purpose you were originally created for.

The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.

Love rules through Law. Love is the Divine Givingness

And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.