Hitlahavut Quotes & Sayings

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow. — Rory Stewart

A smile cures the wounding of a frown. — William Shakespeare

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven. — Tom Douglas

Martin Buber as described for basic virtues cultivated by the Hasidim to overcome the separation of the sacred and secular. . . . St. Benedict spoke of them as truly seeking God, zeal for a humble way of life, zeal for obedience, and zeal for the opus of God. Buber catalogues them as kavana (single-mindedness), shiflut (humility), avada (service), and hitlahavut (fire of ecstasy). 129 — M. Basil Pennington

What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? — Fredro Starr

In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of the law of the Lord ... Surely there can be no excuse for us not to become the best informed generation of all time in our knowledge of the scriptures. Never before have we had opportunity such as we have today to become real gospel scholars. — L. Tom Perry

I want to wash your hair with a shampoo that smells like fruit - mango, or strawberries. I want to walk on a beach with you, dragging a big stick behind us, making a message in the sand that we try to believe an airplane will really see. I want to kiss saltwater from your lips. I want us to listen to music with our eyes closed; I want to read musty books while lying next to you - books about fascinating things like mummies and eccentric artists and old shipwrecks in the Pacific. I want to have picnics on our bed and crawl into cotton sheets that smell like summer because we left the windows open when we were gone. I want to wake in the night with you and marvel at the stars and try to find the moon through the trees. I want all the sweet things in life. But only by your side. — Deb Caletti

...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act. — Derrick Jensen

I sense love, beauty and power and know I am supported by unseen beings of light. — Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. — Heather King