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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e8b2c15 | Religion arose out of celebration and its opposite, bereavement, both of which cry out for collective expression. | Huston Smith | ||
| 9a457b0 | We live in a fantastic century. I brush aside the incredible discoveries of science, and the razor's edge between doom and fulfillment onto which they have pushed us, to speak of the new situation among peoples. Lands across the planet have become our neighbors, China across the street, the Middle East at our back door. Young people with backpacks are everywhere, and those who remain at home are treated to an endless parade of books, docume.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 349dfe6 | We should witness all things non-reactively, especially our moods and emotions, neither condemning some nor holding on to others. | Huston Smith | ||
| 9fcd5cf | For what is a human being? A body? Certainly, but anything else? A personality that includes mind, memories, and propensities that have derived from unique trajectory of life experiences? This, too, but anything more? Some say no, but Hinduism disagrees. Underlying the human self and animating it is a reservoir of being that never dies, is never exhausted, and is unrestricted in consciousness and bliss. The infinite center of life, this hid.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 604a4b5 | These are what people really want, and they want them infinitely. To state the full truth, then, we must say that what people really would like to have is infinite being, infinite knowledge, and infinite bliss. Moksha is the release from the finitude that restricts us from the limitless being, consciousness, and bliss we desire. | Huston Smith | ||
| b14fa1f | What if the interests of the self were expanded to the point of approximating a God's eye view of humanity? Seeing all things under the aspect of eternity would make one objective toward oneself, accepting failure as on a par with success in the stupendous human drama of yes and no, positive and negative, push and pull. Personal failure would be as small a cause for concerns as playing a loser in a summer theater performance. How could one .. | Huston Smith | ||
| c2eff24 | We need to approach this question of being not only spatially, but also in terms of time. Our everyday experience provides a wedge for doing so. Strictly speaking, every moment of our lives is a dying; the I of that moment dies, never to be reborn. I endure through the moments-experiencing them, without being identical with any of them in it singularity. Hinduism carries this notion a step further. It posits an extensive self that lives suc.. | Huston Smith | ||
| c1ed5d9 | We have seen that psychology has accustomed us to the fact there is more to ourselves than we suspect. Like the eighteenth century European view of the earth, our minds have their own darkest Africas, their unmapped Borneos, their Amazonian basins. Their bulk continues to await exploration. Hinduism sees the mind's hidden continents as stretching to infinity. Infinite in being, infinite in awareness, there is nothing beyond them that remain.. | Huston Smith | ||
| c4a359b | How can such a love for Being be engendered? The things for the world clamor for our affection so incessantly that it may be marveled that Being who can neither be seen nor heard can ever become their rival. Enter Hinduism's myths, her magnificent symbols, her several hundred images of God, her rituals that keep turning night and day like never ending prayer wheels. It is obtuse to confused Hinduism's images with idolatry, and their multipl.. | Huston Smith | ||
| d001d75 | All the basic principles of Bhakti yoga are richly exemplified in Christianity. From the Hindu point of view, Christianity is one great brilliantly lit highway toward God, not greater than other paths, but more clearly marked. On this path God is conceived differently than in jnana yoga, where the guiding image was of an infinite sea of being underlying the waves of our finite selves. This sea typified the all-pervading Self, which is a muc.. | Huston Smith | ||
| e230da8 | The bhakta's approach include repeating God's name, as in praying without ceasing "keep the name of the Lord spinning in the midst of all your activities." Washing or weaving, planting or shopping, imperceptibly but indelibly these verbal droplets of aspiration soak down into the subconscious, loading it with the divine." | Huston Smith | ||
| 8f0ec3e | The last is the worship of God in innumerable forms. Each is a symbol that points to something beyond; and as none exhausts God's actual nature, the entire array is needed to complete the picture of God's aspects and manifestations. But though the representations point equally to God, it s advisable for each devotee to form a lifelong attachment to one, so only then can its meaning deepen and its full power become accessible. The ideal form.. | Huston Smith | ||
| c28eaff | Raja yoga with asanas (poses and breathing) is a way of leading the inquirer to direct personal experience of the "beyond that is within." Its method is willed introversion, one of the classic implements of creative genius in any line of endeavor. Its intent is to drive the psychic energy of the self to its deepest part to activate the last continent of the true self" | Huston Smith | ||
| baff088 | The motions of the average mind, say the Hindus, are about as orderly as those of a crazed monkey cavorting in its cage. Nay, more; like the prancings of a drunk, crazed monkey. Even so we have not conveyed its restlessness; the mind is like a drunken crazed monkey who has been stung by a wasp. What if the mind could be turned from a ping-pong ball into a lump of dough, which when thrown sticks to a all until deliberately removed? Would not.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 82a0b81 | In samadhi, the mind continues to think, but of no thing. This does not mean that it is thinking of nothing, that it is a total blank. It has perfected the paradox of seeing the invisible. It is filled with that which is "separated from all qualities, neither this nor that, without form, without a name." | Huston Smith | ||
| 6ad166a | We are limited in joy, knowledge, and being, the three things people really want. | Huston Smith | ||
| af383bb | The creative quietude of philosophical Taoism means to align one's daily life to the Tao, to ride its boundless tide and delight in its flow...and to perfect a life of wu wei- pure effectiveness and creative quietude (supreme activity and supreme relaxation.) We are nurtured by a force that is infinitely subtle, infinitely intricate; it is a consummate gracefulness born from an abundant vitality that has no need for abruptness or violence. .. | Huston Smith | ||
| 15ba09b | But simply carving out a good life on earth is not the end goal. And in some cases, it can actually distract us from the bigger vision of being transformed into Christlikeness. | Jim Powell | ||
| 3ba3082 | Let us think only of the good days that are to come. | Agatha Christie | ||
| baa7397 | It's as easy to utter lies as truth. | Agatha Christie | ||
| e9ace6a | Proof must be solid break walls of facts. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0afe8f1 | Kdyby rybar napichoval na hacek jako navnadu neco, co chutna jemu, asi by na to moc ryb nechytil. Proto uziva jako navnadu to, co chutna rybam. S chlapci je to stejne. Kdybyste jim kazali o tom, co sami povazujete za po- vznasejici, nechytili byste je. | Robert Baden-Powell | ||
| 03aa494 | The stories in my collection are about young African American women trying to find their homes in the world. The stories are set in North Carolina in the new south, post-segregation, post-Jim Crow, post-lawful separation of races, but those ghosts endure. My characters are usually poor, but not content to be so. They are usually watchers, but at crucial moments are compelled to act. They are girls determined to be proud women. The world has.. | Stephanie Powell Watts | ||
| 613452b | In the book Transformational Church, the authors say, "Churches do not change until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing."28" | Jim Powell | ||
| 29f0f76 | People with teachable spirits realize the value of humility and how little they actually know before consequences force them to act. They | Jim Powell | ||
| 9af6f0f | but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers. | Laurie R. King | ||
| fd1cb91 | It's so messy bleeding like a pig. | Agatha Christie | ||
| ff8e37c | I am watching bees. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 9bca0fd | were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And | Laurie R. King | ||
| 1904501 | I am getting old, Russell. Gone are the days when I could scramble about on the moors all day and curl up happily at night with a thin blanket and a stone for a pillow. Three nights on floorboards and one night without sleep following three days at strenuous labour make me aware that I am no longer a callow youth. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 95abe43 | Love was the thing that kept a person going past exhaustion, beyond reason, after hope was at its end. Grit, | Laurie R. King | ||
| d10c33c | 'Guys'?" Doucet asked. "I saw three members of l'Academie." "Um, Provost?" "Prevost?" "That's it." "I'll contact him. She also spent some time with Josephine Baker," Doucet offered." | Laurie R. King | ||
| 5a7dcd2 | For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 4d386d1 | I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 34749eb | Normally, one is only conscious of the room around one, but when no-one else is present, one's awareness is free to fill all the space. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 64d40d2 | The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell to me like fermenting apples. | Laurie R. King | ||
| cfcf346 | Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand. | feminist feminist-quotes independence maternal sensible | Laurie R. King | |
| 62f493e | You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And" | Laurie R. King | ||
| 88bfd0d | A spray of burning tobacco flew into the air, followed by furious slaps and the stench of scorched wool. Once Holmes was sure he was not about to go up in flames, he turned to the driver in a fury. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 714bc00 | AND DEAD SEA | Laurie R. King | ||
| 7223d52 | The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 1b5f7e5 | The water stretched out as far as the eye could see in an expanse of gentle grey-blue swells broken only by the occasional white-capped wavelet and the line of the ship's passage, unrolling die-straight behind us until it faded into the glare of sun on the western horizon. Directly below where I stood, dominating my vision if I leant my upper body over the rail, the churn of the great screws dug an indentation in the surface, followed by a .. | Laurie R. King | ||
| e100f60 | The problem in turning independent thinkers loose on a matter is, they tend to go beyond the theoretical and seize the chance for independent action. Thus, | Laurie R. King | ||
| 81b63e5 | if she was finished. | Laurie R. King |