I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces,...
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibi...
She hesitated, wiping her hands off on her apron. “I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place is a little—it’s a little much for me.” She didn’t have to tell him how it was. He had lived here for years, in a house that w...
The constant talker will never, or a least rarely, grasp truth. Of course even he must experience some truths, otherwise he could not exist. He does notice certain facts, observe certain relations, draw conclusions and make plans. But he does not yet...
The Mind The mind is a hotel with a thousand rooms. When I tilt my head a certain way, I think about certain things. When I tilt my head another way, I think about other things. If I sleep on the right side of my face, for example, I’d dream of a p...
Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious ...
I fought angrily against seeing particular types of poetic organization because it seemed awful to see my own life and these actual events in that way. But when you put forth an intention into the universe to speak a certain truth and narrate a certa...
Arwen: Tell me what you have seen. Elrond: Arwen? Arwen: You have the gift of foresight. What did you see? Elrond: I looked into your future and I saw death. Arwen: But there is also life. You *saw* there was a child, you saw my son! Elrond: That fut...
Over-communication at work can create a new level of tasks and responsibilities.
And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown
If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.
Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.
The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.
Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie.
