La Chele Lakewood Quotes & Sayings

Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then - the fame, the respect, and the recognition - was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader — Drexel Deal

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. — Robert M. Pirsig

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. — Don Ellis

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself. — S.A. Tawks

THREE STAGES OF MEDITATION There are three stages in meditation. The first is what is called Dharana, concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to concentrate my mind upon this glass, excluding every other object from my mind except this glass. But the mind is wavering. When it has become strong and does not waver so much, it is called Dhyana, meditation. And then there is a still higher state when the differentiation between the glass and myself is lost - Samadhi or absorption. The mind and the glass are identical. I do not see any difference. All the senses stop and all powers that have been working through other channels of other senses are focused in the mind. Then this glass is under the power of the mind entirely. This is to be realised. It is a tremendous play played by the Yogis. — Swami Vivekananda

Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't," he said, his own jaw a little tight. "So I stole his car. — Tara Janzen

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. — Emanuel Swedenborg