Path Quotes
Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.
I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.
For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.
Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.
If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.
The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.
Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.
There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.
For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.
Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.
There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.
The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.
In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them.
The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.
I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.
The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.