Awoonor Williams Quotes & Sayings

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it was a butterfly that is becomes a fish. — Soren Kierkegaard

In the second training, we develop energy, concentration, and mindfulness. These are the meditative and life tools that enable us to awaken. Without them we simply act out the patterns of our conditioning. — Joseph Goldstein

Two flights of steps bordered either side of the Hill from Hell. I didn't know who constructed them or when, but it was sometime before I was born. Maybe even before Daddy was born. In one stretch, the steps were made of large semiflat stones. In another, wood. In a third, slate. All of them were in terrible disrepair, but it was still easier to climb them than to try to walk up the dirt road itself, especially since Stacy and I were weighed down with our backpacks, slices of pie in Tupperware containers, bottles of Pepsi, and a bunch of cassette tapes. We stopped halfway up to catch our breath. I really didn't need to, but I could tell Stacy was not used to trudging up hills. — Diane Chamberlain

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener. — Nancy Farmer

Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith ... Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. — David Foster Wallace