Contanos Quotes & Sayings

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God. — Sri Chinmoy

There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live - and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience! — Billy Graham

The finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself. — D.T. Suzuki

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers. — B.K.S. Iyengar

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more. — Michael Palin

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other. — Wendell Berry

I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' — Kristen Stewart

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. — Richard Rohr

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink. — Casey Stengel

Though every city shall he hunt her down,
Until he shall driven her back to Hell,
There from whence envy first did let her loose. — Dante Alighieri

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder. — Rosalind Wiseman

We can know ourselves only because we can remember. — John Ratey

Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime - just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them — Daniel Lenihan