Fire, even if put on head, burns only.
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
A person does not. . . stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface. . . but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating. . . a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.
Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.
I am singing now while Rome burns.