"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
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"Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way."
"I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved."
"There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way."
"There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate."
"How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?"
"What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies."
"If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death."
"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."
"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."
"Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you."
"Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom."
"Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain."
"No man need stay the way he is."
"The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live."
"But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out."
"The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge."
"Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister."
"One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly."
"It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."