A Course In Miracles Made Easy Alan Cohen Quotes & Sayings

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. — George Orwell

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting. — Adolph Gottlieb

In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. — Aleister Crowley

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses ... If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted ... At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me. — Isabel Allende

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing. — Queen Latifah

Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up! the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once. — Harry Turtledove

Friendship often grows out of shared experiences — Andrew Hacker

the earth has enough to satisfy every man's need but not his greed — Gandhiji

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. — Martin Scorsese

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom. — Suzanne Collins

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment ... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. — Brendan Behan

There is a mystery in this, a minor apocalypse somewhere between what these two men once knew of themselves- a holding on to something that, in turn, refused to let them go- and I long to know it, like the old prophets. — Garrard Conley

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. — J.I. Packer