Cobaltsaffron Darrell Calkins Quotes & Sayings

If you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment. — Darrell Calkins

If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place. — Darrell Calkins

Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in. — Darrell Calkins

This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness. — Darrell Calkins

Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question. — Darrell Calkins

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go? — Alice Sebold

If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time. — Darrell Calkins

Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone's cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own. — Darrell Calkins

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth. — Rick Warren

Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests. — Darrell Calkins

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Have you ever noticed," he said, stirred now by this vision of domestic bliss that was beyond his reach, and shocked earlier that evening to find himself crying in the subway on his way home from a client, "that gay people secrete everything in each other's presence but tears? — Andrew Holleran

The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything. — Darrell Calkins

One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish. — Darrell Calkins

Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality. — Darrell Calkins

Real giving, clean, humble, precise, requires at least some anonymity. You do your job, and you're not going to be paid for it. That's the point in a way; you were already paid for it...Greatness, if you want to shoot for that, is the ability to do this and not have resentment or any other dis-ease accumulate. — Darrell Calkins

The more I write, the less I understand why. — Marty Rubin

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. — Lynn Swann

A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea. — Darrell Calkins

It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos. — Tony Scott

As much as I'm enjoying this verbal foreplay," he said abruptly, "what do you say we just skip to the part where you ride my dick? — Elle Kennedy

Much like Down Syndrome, red hair is a genetic mutation, and it occurs when a human has unprotected sex with a clown. — Daniel Tosh

If you ever get a single wish from a genie, wish that what you know you should do and what you really have fun doing become one and the same. Whatever grand vision you may have, for you, those you love, or all of humanity and beyond, it becomes attainable there. Indeed, when these two become one, you yourself become the genie. — Darrell Calkins

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world. — Kevin Harrington

One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas. — Darrell Calkins

How many people are watching a movie right now, or reading a book or listening to a song or looking into their life or dreaming with this profound, conscious or not, yearning more than anything for some kind of relationship somewhere with someone or something that would cause them to stagger in intimate rawness in friendship and love? — Darrell Calkins

The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature's demands) nor from heaven (Nature's callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one's essential spirit becomes. — Darrell Calkins

Sustainable serenity, joy and fulfillment demand greater spiritual virtuosity, which is only found through deeper integration of conscience into the mix of one's core intent. — Darrell Calkins

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself. — Darrell Calkins

Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue. — Darrell Calkins

A state of grace is when everything imperfect disappears, leaving just stripped-down harmony. One is left empty, with nothing except a fluid open sensation, similar to becoming the sound from a tuning fork piercing through space. — Darrell Calkins

What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche? — Leigh Bardugo

An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go. — Darrell Calkins