The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger whom you await, he is bound to disappear also. What is the use of a transient being like that? But so long as you think you are separate or that you are the body, an external master is also necessary and he will appear to have a body. When the wrong identification of oneself with the body ceases, the master will be found to be none other than the Self.
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you. . . and you could change the magic.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
The UN can go as far as the U. S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U. S. , impose.
It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it. The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.
Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
We are traveling on with our staff in hand. . . We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land.
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.