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"When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness."
"We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us."
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
"The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place."
"When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was."
"For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love."
"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."
"In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it."
"For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way."
"Budget: a way of going broke methodically"
"It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone."
"I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way."
"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it."
"There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened."
"Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it."
"I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life."
"The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out."
"It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways."
"I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is."
"My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way."
