So Go There. Quotes

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

...friendship is something you do.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

No one can save me except myself.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

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September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

I don't have the time, skill level, or experience to date one guy, let alone two. Fortunately, there's more to life than boys. How about we focus on something other than me finding a mate?

Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators