Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.

Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are.

It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.

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