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The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.

Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and it upsets them—because they don’t have the full story, aren’t personally facing the problem, and don’t know how much worse the alternative could be.

The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear to the thunder of the surf. The bright sands, the screaming birds, and the wild winds are always with you.

I am part of all that I have met.

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...

I didn't see her love,but I felt itthrough the sun,the wind,and the raindrops

When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.

I remember exactly how it felt to see that first message from him in my inbox. It was a little bit surreal. He wanted to know about me. For the next few days at school after that, it felt like I was a character in a movie. I could almost imagine a close-up of my face, projected wide-screen. It's strange, because in reality, I'm not the leading guy. Maybe I'm the best friend.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

I need you to just trust me for now without knowing all the answers.

Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Listen to your inner voice. Don't second guess yourself. Learn to listen to your inner guidance.

Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, the afternoon and almost the whole night until dawn...

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Today is filled with solutions, be positive and enthusiastic at ALL times. Why worry or live in fear, it will probably never happen!

Write about the dream you see during wakefulness.

I feel sorry for Rick Astley, one day he is going to die and nobody will know about it for weeks because nobody will want to click the link.

Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered – a healing of the soul. Even our language points to this relation. The words ‘holy’, ‘wholesome’ and ‘healing’ all have the same root. (In German, this is even more striking: heilig, heil and heilen.) Muslims believe that all humans are born in a state of purity, our fitra, and it is only in the course of our lives that we tarnish our soul through bad habits and wrong behaviour. Through spiritual practices such as prayer, recitation of Quran and dhikr we can cleanse these acquired ‘black spots’ in our soul and return towards our original primordial nature. More so, dhikr is said to enliven the heart.

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

To open door to hatred is to open one’s spirit to misery

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Magnanimous of you.'His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.

I killed it," Athan lamented. "I am a fool." His righteous anger, his arguments, his adoration for the being who claimed Eldaloth's name faded and disintegrated with all the suffering life behind him. A poisonous dread seeped as deep into his soul as the exultant honor and pride he had felt just minutes before. The vast gap between the two emotions a crater into which his very soul plummeted in free-fall.

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.

Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.