Doe Quotes
Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being
God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.
Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.
Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"
This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.
Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.
The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate.
Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.
Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.
The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.
A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation.
But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.