Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.
The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.
We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell. ' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one. ' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.
Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.