Galdona Quotes & Sayings

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable. — Gerard Puccio

Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. — Aldous Huxley

The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap. — Annie Proulx

When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for. — A.S. King