Haffkine Website Quotes & Sayings

Whether or not the historical Buddha actually suffered from the kind of primitive agonies Winnicott expounded upon, the meditations he taught in the aftermath of his awakening "hold" the mind just as Winnicott described a mother "holding" an infant. In making the observational posture of mindfulness central to his technique, the Buddha established another version of "an auxiliary ego-function" in the psyches of his followers, one that enabled them, to go back to his metaphor of pulling out an arrow, to tend to their own wounds with both their minds and their hearts. Far from eliminating the ego, as I naively believed I should when I first began to practice meditation, the Buddha encouraged a strengthening of the ego so that it could learn to hold primitive agonies without collapse. — Mark Epstein

Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us. — Seth Adam Smith

Life is like a great teacher ... she will repeat the lesson until you learn. — Ricky Martin

Use memories. Don't let memories use you. — Deepak Chopra

There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it. — John Blanchard

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it. — Greg Fitzsimmons

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did. — Tamera Alexander

That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip. — Scott Pelley

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. — Philip K. Dick

First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer! — Zoe McLellan

The great design of Jesus' descent into hell is to rouse
people out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death. — Tim Liwanag

Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special. — Mark Gimenez

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. — Helen Keller

It's my fucking business when I've had my face buried between your thighs and can still taste you on my tongue. — Tara Sivec