If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. —William Congreve More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our first and last love is self-love. —Christian Nestell Bovee More about this quote Tags: love self self-love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. —Morihei Ueshiba More about this quote Tags: love life spirit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am glad that my master lived in a one-story house when I began to traverse the early stages of love. For when he would speak of the wonders and the beauty of creation, I could not control my happiness and would commence a dance that most always resulted in a dive, head first, out of his window. And you only broke your big nose seventeen times. —Hafiz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. —Milan Kundera More about this quote Tags: fear humility delight mysticism exaggeration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness; touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. —Fred Buechner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything. —Don DeLillo More about this quote Tags: faith listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but thinking of the question that has been raised. One cannot speak about mystery; one must be seized by it. —René Magritte More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything that happens is at once natural and inconceivable. —E. M. Cioran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? —Samuel Taylor Coleridge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Tags: attention fear ignorance doubt uncertainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O you who love clear edges more than anything . . . watch the edges that blur. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God. Robert: They come from your imagination. Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: God imagination communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think, in our kind of society, we'll be able to develop a full-blown mystical religion or concept of God because we seek instant gratification, fast food, endless talk and noise. The silence in mysticism is alien. People want to do a few courses in mysticism, rather like the way you do French before going on holiday, and emerge a mystic. Mysticism isn't like that. —Karen Armstrong More about this quote Tags: God religion silence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email