And Quotes

Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

The difference between success and failure is work.

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at focus on the sickness brings death. To look at focus on God's Word brings life.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.