And Quotes

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?

Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge.

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

Only love and death will change all things.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

Personally, in real life, Im a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.