So by being created, you are automatically made manifest within a system in which you are directly associated with your creator, and it is this association that we define as a relationship.
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in this world.
One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.
Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.
It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.
Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.
On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.
It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.
The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)
Mudit was smoking for me I wasn’t ready to give up. Arjun was the Alcohol Anonymous, I wasn’t even ready to enroll; someone had to make me forcefully join it
Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)
To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)
Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94)
[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)
