Fishberg Family Vision Quotes & Sayings

What is meditative absorption? What is leaving the body? What is fasting? What is holding the breath? These are a flight from the ego, a brief escape from the torment of being an ego, a short-term deadening of the pain and absurdity of life. This same escape, this same momentary deadening, is achieved by the ox driver in an inn when he drinks a bowl of rice wine or fermented coconut milk. Then he no longer feels his self, then he no longer feels the pains of life - he achieves momentary numbness. Falling asleep over his bowl of rice wine, he reaches the same result Siddhartha and Govinda reach when, through long practice sessions, they escape their bodies and dwell in nonego. That is the way it is, Govinda." Govinda — Hermann Hesse

Joy is the grace we say to God. — Ray Bradbury

Needless to say, the manufacture of elephants is no easy matter. — Haruki Murakami

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. — Hendrik Poinar

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds. — Orson Pratt

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. — Henry Hazlitt

What is it the child knows about happiness, passion, and play, that the adult forgets? Eastern — Tom Shadyac

For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it. — Lee Kuan Yew