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American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.
I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.
The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.
Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.
Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.