Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics love rules help honor security free Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love uniqueness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Both speech and silence transgress. —Zen saying More about this quote Tags: silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world. —Robert Pirsig More about this quote Tags: wonder awareness perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: joy prayer desire abundance need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: God words experience joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: wonder life prayer veneration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. —Edward Hoagland More about this quote Tags: wisdom equanimity playfulness calmness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning. —John Cowper Powys More about this quote Tags: spirituality wisdom poetry mistake Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: attention politics intelligence philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward him. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Tags: God purpose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. —Shalom Aleichem More about this quote Tags: perception perspective enjoyment food parable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be on to something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair. —Walker Percy More about this quote Tags: life sadness searching quotidian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. —Deshimaru More about this quote Tags: life dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. —Vladimir Nabokov More about this quote Tags: attention death birth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email