And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.
When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.
There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread. . . Im very lucky.
A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs. " I was pretty lucky.
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.