Marisse Value Quotes & Sayings

When I taught the meditation on sound to the participants at my weekend workshop and had people open to the ringing of their cell phones, I was trying to introduce them to his method. By listening meditatively, we were changing the way we listen, pulling ourselves out of our usual orientation to the world based on our likes and dislikes. Rather than trying to figure out what was going on around us, resisting the unpleasant noises and gravitating toward the mellifluous ones, we were listening in a simpler and more open manner. We had to find and establish another point of reference to listen in this way, one that was outside the ego's usual territory of control. You might say we were simply listening, but it was actually more complex than that. While listening, we were also aware of ourselves listening, and at the same time we were conscious of what the listening evoked within. Unhooked from our usual preoccupations, we were listening from a neutral place. — Mark Epstein

One would think the more obtrusive setting would create the greatest impact, but instead it is the solitude that presses with more force. — Elizabeth Crook

You are wrong," says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. "Your rulers and their propaganda have sold you this watered-down conceit of war, of a warrior yoked to the whims of civilization. Yet for all their self-professed civility, your rulers will gladly spend a soldier's life to better aid their posturing, to keep the cost of a crude good low. They will send the children of others off to die and only think upon it later to grandly and loudly memorialize them, lauding their great sacrifice. Civilization is but the adoption of this cowardly method of murder. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Time is running faster than watch.
Life is running faster than Time.
We are running faster than Life.
In this race, relationships are being left behind — Pankaj Gupta

We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives. — Girdhar Joshi

A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far. — Sam Smith

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. — Alfred De Vigny

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. — Diane Wakoski

I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country. — Darlene Senger

When the Fed raises or lowers interest rates, for instance, then that affects the entire economy. Contracts or expands it. — David Baldacci

Take care of yourself,forgive and forget the past and live the future you seek to see, listen to and pay attention to your next breath,go after the desires of your heart with all your passion and intellect,and above all live the that you want to lead. — K.J. Kilton

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. — Elsa Peretti

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought. — Carrie Jones

Crazy people didn't make the best brawl opponents. They were too unpredictable. — Trina M. Lee