Ketana Quotes & Sayings

The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing nor ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, 'I don't like it!', 'It's boring!' It is not a point that one can argue; but it like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached. — Andrei Tarkovsky

The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring — Okey Ndibe

Meditation is not words, a mantram, or self hypnosis, the drug of illusions. It must happen without your volition. It must take place in the quiet stillness of the night, when you are suddenly awake and see that the brain is quiet and there is a peculiar quality of meditation going on. It must take place as silently as a snake among the tall grass, green in the fresh morning light. It must take place in the deep recesses of the brain. Meditation is not an achievement. There is no method, system or practice. Meditation begins with the ending of comparison, the ending of the becoming or not becoming. As the bee whispers among the leaves so the whispering of meditation is action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em. — Cliff Shaw

Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon."
Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels. — Kevin Hearne

For a species low in male parental investment, the basic dynamic of courtship, as we've seen, is pretty simple: the male really wants sex; the female isn't so sure.7 — Robert Wright

During those restless, shut-up days, I got to know every inch of the room as a prisoner comes to know his cell. — Anonymous

Even when he cheated he couldn't win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too. — Joseph Heller

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds. — Terence McKenna

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other. — John Krasinski

If you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough — Josh Stern

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra ... — Chuck Palahniuk