How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it.
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.
I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
, the phantoms whispered to my father, speaking my most frightening thoughts in a chorus of voices, dripping with hatred. My hatred.
Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whisper. I know who you really are. My fury heightens.
The point of tantric sex was supposedly to harness sexual energy to awaken higher consciousness. It was just like yoga, but way more fun.
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the , the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. (140)
If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.
This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.
She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.
but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.
