Ahnenblatt Quotes & Sayings

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own. — Joni Eareckson Tada

The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna). — Dada Bhagwan

Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing! — David Deida

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

But my thoughts
breed truths
that my heart
can't
bare.
Like Melody. — Kenya Wright

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever. — Mark Hoppus

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime. — Rick Warren

Maybe the church was right.
Maybe I'm selfish.
Maybe I'm evil.
Maybe I'm damned.
I feel like I'm on a tight rope,
barely balancing. I know it's
a long way down and I'm
afraid I'm destined to crash. — Ellen Hopkins

One thinks about modern academics, especially philosophers and sociologists. Their language is often voiceless and without power because it is so utterly cut off from experience and things. There is no sense of words carrying experiences, only of reflecting relationships between other words or between "concepts." There is no sense of an actual self seeing a thing or having an experience... Sociology - by its very nature? - seems to be an enterprise whose practitioners cut themselves off from experience and things and deal entirely with categories about categories. As a result sociologists, more even than writers in other disciplines, often write language which has utterly died — Peter Elbow

A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking. — John Updike

That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one — Rachel Maddow

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.' — Les Dawson