Akcent Przez Quotes & Sayings

At the level of second attention, however, this cycle is irrelevant. One doesn't need to repeal the law of karma at all. Despite all the activity on the surface of life, a speck of awareness inside is not touched. The instant they wake up in the morning, a saint and a sinner are in the same place. They both feel themselves to be alive and aware. This place stands outside reward and punishment. It knows no duality; therefore in stage four your challenge is to find this place, hold on to it, and live there. When you have accomplished this task, duality is gone. You are free from all bondage of good or bad actions. In Christian terms, your soul is redeemed and returned to innocence. — Deepak Chopra

There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older. — Laura Carmichael

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. — David Nicholls

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi

And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. — Kahlil Gibran

Skills are freedom. Get skilled up! — Pat Falvey

Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was not refreshment, but mortal chill. — Diana Gabaldon

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes. — Joe Biden

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought. — Ludwig Von Mises

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me. — Chris Prentiss

No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm. — John Locke

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are. — Marilynne Robinson

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. — Charles Caleb Colton