Cassens Edwardsville Quotes & Sayings

Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight. — Stephen Batchelor

And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. - Colossians 3:15 — Gary Chapman

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways. — Napoleon Hill

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it. — Julianne Moore

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style. — Norman Mailer

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan

Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters. — Mary Doria Russell

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. — Richard Rohr

She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work. — Jeanette Winterson

There Is No Failure. It's Only Un-Finished Success. — Raja Ravi Varma

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them. — Eudora Welty

You have to love and respect yourself enough to not let people use and abuse you. You have to set boundaries and keep them, let people clearly know how you won't tolerate to be treated, and let them know how you expect to be treated. — Jeanette Coron