And Quotes
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.
The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.
This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.
All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.
Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.
I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.
Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.
Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.
Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.