Kerb Stones For Gardens Quotes & Sayings

Pema calls these activities "the six ways of compassionate living": generosity, patience, discipline, exertion, meditation, and prajna, or wisdom. The basis for all these practices is the cultivation of maitri, an unconditional loving-kindness with ourselves that says, "Start where you are." In Buddhist terms, this path is known as bodhisattva activity. Simply put, a bodhisattva is one who aspires to act from an awakened heart. In terms of the Shambhala teachings, it is the path of warriorship. To join these two streams, Pema likes to use the term warrior-bodhisattva, which implies a fresh and forward-moving energy that is willing to enter into suffering for others' benefit. Such action relates to overcoming the self-deception, self-protection, and other habitual reactions that we use to keep ourselves secure - in a prison of concepts. By gently and precisely cutting through these barriers of ego, we develop a direct experience of bodhichitta. — Pema Chodron

Never have a ceiling on your income. — T. Harv Eker

I took the little radio from the kitchen and I went and sat in the spare room and I tuned it halfway between two stations so that all I could hear was white noise and I turned the volume up really loud and I held it against my ear and the sound filled my head and it hurt so that I couldn't feel any other sort of hurt, like the hurt in my chest — Mark Haddon

I'm going to fall on my face if I have to run next to you looking like that." "I don't look any different than most guys on the beach," he tried to persuade me. "It's you," I stressed. "Any other guy could look exactly like that shirtless,s but it's you shirtless that makes my brain go all stupid. — Rebecca Donovan

I'd leave you here longer, but it's no longer safe. — Brian Staveley

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong. — Harry Morgan

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. — Robin Williams

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea. — Oscar Wilde

Adventures make great stories, but the day after really sucks. — Bryan Fields

Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed. — John Hagel III

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. — Huey Newton

Music must lead people, don't you think?" asked Thies. "If it follows whatever the popular taste happens to be, then what's its value? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas. — George C. Lorimer

Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings. — Fannie Flagg

Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about. — Neale Donald Walsch