Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.

The Poet Prince

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

The Prize

Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

Prodigy

I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.

Prodigy

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Prodigy

You risked an awful lot for someone you hardly know.' I narrow my eyes. 'THAT doesn't say much about your character. Perhaps you should wait until someone's about to be executed for a mistake YOU made.

Prodigy

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

Philosophy of Science

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories

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.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

The Privilege of Being a Woman

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

Q & A

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

Q & A

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

The Rose Petal Beach

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books