Gertsen Interstate Quotes & Sayings

All horrors are dulled by routine. — Roberto Bolano

I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I'm blessed. — Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another. — Hugh B. Brown

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch

The idea of grace had been so much on my mind, grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials. — Marilynne Robinson

This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you. — Rajneesh

Prayers should be for preventing war, not fighting it. — @hg47