Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.