Clearings In Forests Quotes & Sayings

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this. — Nhat Hanh

It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself, who is cured, and who must shamanize in order to remain cured. — Terence McKenna

Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God. — Louie Giglio

I hope it won't take long. — Enrico Fermi

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace. — Arianna Huffington

If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional! — Paul Walker

Longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert

And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass I was conscious of no repugnance,rather a leap of welcome. This too, was myself. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Being the Stream
Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the
stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream,
so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies.
Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally
into it. — Gary Snyder

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest. — Trey Gowdy