A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it. . . but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.
With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.
Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom. . . true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is
Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us. . . Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed. . . When we die, No-one will know it's happened
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionas making a spark requires two things struck together.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.