[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
In the midst of life, we are in death.
In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and no tomorrow — there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.
The first step of gratitude is to see the gift. . . if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty. . . when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind. . . mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.
Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.
Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.
Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.
The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.