Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.
Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
. . . losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return. . . you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also. . . . There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.
There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
It must be important or he wouldn't dare disturb me now,” he muttered. Then he drew away to look at me. “If it's not, I'll kill him and return to you directly.
The development of man is a return to an original perfection.
I'm lost. I'm going to find myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.
But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".
Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable
A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.