That Is The Way! Quotes
... the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...
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.
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.
Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human
Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.
Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign
From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.
Never wanted it to be an imposition, I am alone & will find my way alone.
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
Everything man needs is in the world.
God provides the food, men provide the cooks.
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.
I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.
Whenever I am going through good phase, i don't give a damn about what my horoscope says.
When you do what you love, there is nothing you need to worry about. Everything comes easily.
Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.
You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
The earth doesn't move backward (very much) when you walk only because it's much more massive than you are.
You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.
Broken wings don't mend that way
Don't give yourself a limit and you may discover you don't have one.
How to tune your sixth sense and use it to improve your life
Decide what you want. Declare it to the world. See yourself winning. And remember that if you are persistent as well as patient, you can get whatever you seek.
To die fulfilled is to have discovered self and purpose and to achieve all that comes in these two packages
Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.
And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.
Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...
But after years of teaching, we have decided that a lot of mothers just aren't reading textbooks.
I don't like flowers, chocolate, cakes or diamonds either, I am definitely not a hard one to impress.
Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.
I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.