Mesterek Quotes & Sayings

People never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse. — Scott Nicholson

Even without the drizzle and approaching darkness, it was a miserable time to be digging up dead people. — Terry Goodkind

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart. — Alan Watts

One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually". — Ken Wilber

God pity us indeed, for we are human,And do not always seeThe vision when it comes, the shining change,Or, if we see it, do not follow it,Because it is too hard, too strange, too new,Too unbelievable, too difficult,Warring too much with common, easy ways,And now I know this, standing in this light,Who have been half alive these many years,Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain,Saying I am a barren bough. ExpectNor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be. — Alafair Burke

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. — Rae Dawn Chong

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't. — Janeane Garofalo

If any of those who were awakened by my ministry, did after that fall back (as sometimes too many did), I can truly say, their loss hath been more to me, than if one of my own children, begotten of my own body, had been going to its grave: — John Bunyan

For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. — Vladimir Nabokov