Chorin Weller Quotes & Sayings

in the universal womb that is boundless space
all forms of matter and energy occur
as flux of the four elements,
but all are empty forms, absent in reality:
all phenomena, arising in pure mind, are like that.

just as dream is a part of sleep,
unreal in its arising,
so all and everything is pure mind,
never separated from it,
and without substance or attribute.

experience is neither mind nor anything but mind;
it is a vivid display of emptiness, like magical illusion,
in the very moment inconceivable and unutterable.
all experience arising in the mind,
at its inception, know it as emptiness! — Longchenpa

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. — Laurence Sterne

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns. — Jeremiah Wright

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric. — Kat Dennings

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level. — Tim Gunn

I do not like this idea that we have begun to kill off - at great velocity and accelerating speed - all of the things that sustain us. I didn't like it at all when I first thought of it, but most people around me do not seem that disturbed by it, even though the knowledge of this is obvious and readily available to anyone who looks up trees on the Internet. At least, no one seems bothered, because no one has taken action to amend it. So they must not care. That is the only explanation I can think of for the lack of reaction to this fact. — Ned Hayes

Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break. — Vonda Shepard

We must become the people we want our children to be. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

My mind is still reeling from a man of the cloth saying 'chicks you have banged'. I think I may have underestimated this Father. He appears to know in the ways of the youth. — Alex Dunkin

He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity. — Leo Tolstoy

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know
from experience
how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and ... — Graham Greene

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. — John Holt

A mother's love - how sweet the name! What is a mother's love? - A noble, pure and tender flame, Enkindled from above, To bless a heart of earthly mould; The warmest love that can grow cold; This is a mother's love. — James Montgomery

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. — Nora Ephron