It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day. . . What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.
There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.
Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
. . . Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me. . . Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people
At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes. '
The second half [of Valley of Violence], you're with the guys that you should hate, but when you start seeing what their real lives are, you're like, "I do hate you, but at the same time, all right - maybe take it down a notch. " The complications of all that are what's so interesting to me, those esoteric details - that's what people will hopefully take away from the movie.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once youre laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what Im saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.