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"By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union."
"Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it."
"Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure."
"The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane."
"See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?"
"Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?"
"When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair."
"Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know."
"Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is."
"A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years."
"Being present means living without control and always having your needs met."
"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
"Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right."
"Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry."
"What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute."
"Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home."
"My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well."
"You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you."
"To be human means to feel inferior."
"I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive."
