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"When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone."
"The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey."
"Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?"
"A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window."
"The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels."
"Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
"My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose."
"Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom."
"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself."
"I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else."
"I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel."
"And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?"
"The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point."
"Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant."
"A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament."
"Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel."
"Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind."
"I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave."
"Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough."
"Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust."
