Geesten Horen Quotes & Sayings

Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar. — Antonio Damasio

Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story. — Richard Rohr

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was easy, after all, simply to open the door and escape. It was easy, she thought, because she was not really escaping at all. — Patricia Highsmith

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless — J.R.R. Tolkien

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I like my parents," Olivia said.
Sebastian shook his head, "A concept so alien I think it must be unpatriotic. — Julia Quinn

Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth — Archimedes