Ensample Verse Quotes & Sayings

As Buddhism has been integrated into the West, the meaning of sangha has come to include all our contemporaries who in various ways are consciously pursuing a path of awakening. We are held by sangha when we work individually with a therapist or healer, or when a close friend lets us be vulnerable and real. Taking refuge in the sangha reminds us that we are in good company: We belong with all those who long to awaken, with all those who seek the teachings and practices that lead to genuine peace. — Tara Brach

He'll never let you leave his side again."
"And there is comfort in knowing that, as there will be for Yuri. It is a great thing to be needed by another. — Mary Calmes

Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it — Arthur Conan Doyle

Strike would have advised any friend to leave and not look back, but he had come to see her like a virus in his blood that he doubted he would ever eradicate; the best he could hope for was to control its symptoms. — Robert Galbraith

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God. — Michael Servetus

I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system. — Edgar Mitchell

It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents. — Erma Bombeck

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. — James Russell Lowell

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better — Ralph Marston

grove," but its primary meaning for more than 1,000 years has remained the same. It is a small grouping of trees that bind themselves together over time, both above ground and below it. The trees' branches become intertwined with one another, providing stability to the grove in severe storms. The trees' roots also grow together, strengthening the stature of every individual trunk. — James Beran

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. — Marc Andreessen

One of the fathers saith ... that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. — Francis Bacon

No matter what evils they perpetrate, the enemies of Christ shall not prevail, because Christ sits at God's right hand, not for a time but in eternity. Therefore, — John Calvin

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father. — Iyanla Vanzant

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd. — Nicholas Sparks