Immortalization Table Quotes & Sayings

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty ... — Rajneesh

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians. — Muriel Spark

everything that passes unattempted is impossible." At — Stephen R. Donaldson

All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others. — Brother Lawrence

They should get another lawyer," he said. "Surely there are better people around. That man with the big nose - you know the one - they say that he's very good. The judges can't take their eyes off his nose, and so they always decide in his favour. — Alexander McCall Smith

I exist in the paradise of my mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. — John Berry

In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Barbara W. Tuchman

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one's physician. — Christopher Hitchens

Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength. — Bobby Jindal

American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them. — Landon Y. Jones

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. — David Byrne

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. — James Cameron

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football. — Goran Ivanisevic