I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. "Yes," he said. "I heard all of the names, but I don't remember the other two… just the man who hurt Gillian. " "That's the name I most want," Brodick said softly. "Who is he, Alec?" "Alec, please," Gillian began. "Tell me, Alec. Who is he?" "Baron," Alec whispered. "His name is Baron.
I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.
In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness. So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.