Ashram India Quotes & Sayings

Zwounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me a coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee. — William Shakespeare

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. — C.S. Lewis

I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again. — Avril Lavigne

But it is their voices that really bother her: why do men speak so loudly? They shout rather than talk and laugh like the world needs to know they are laughing. — Nadifa Mohamed

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves ... — Mary Daly

Just what I needed: bizarre nightmares. — Gwenda Bond

My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness. — Karan Bajaj

The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and a half months. While the other three Beatles went back to London to start the beginning of their Apple empire, George and I went to Madras for a week's relaxation. I took this photograph of George one morning, as I thought the light on his face was lovely. I think this was the last time that I saw him looking so calm. — Pattie Boyd

To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted ... not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation ... staying in the present moment and not escaping into the past or projecting into the future, alert and attentive to the now ... feeling relaxed and not nervous or jittery ... no need to impress or dazzle others or draw attention to myself. ... Unself-conscious, a new way of being with myself, a new way of being in the world ... calm, unafraid, no anxiety about what's going to happen next ... loved and valued ... just being together as an end in itself. — Brennan Manning

One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World. — Joseph Henshaw

Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice. — Paul Hawken

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. — Neil Gaiman

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. — Mike Wallace

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy. — Robert Thurman