Miao Shan Quotes & Sayings

beard framing a face that had started to show his age, weathered and lined from years — Richard Allibone

Cole chuckled, saying, Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic. — Gena Showalter

The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts.
Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter. — Kate Morton

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough. — Joanna Macy

I did a series in Britain years ago called 'Skins,' and I remember my little sister telling me that I had a Wikipedia page that was talking about me. But then it got deleted because on Wikipedia anyone can write stuff, right? So I think that it got sabotaged. But this is years ago, so it got taken down. I don't think it exists anymore. — Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Pouring mercy into the darkness, Miao Shan becoming the bodhisattva Kuan Yin. She liberated hell, singing: Old stories, legends of creation, won't keep Hades from becoming paradise. Rumi said for the person who loves the truth "Their water is fire." He made spring out of winter. He learned from his mistakes. There were moments when numb from thinking we forget we pass through hell on our way to heaven. And if that heavenly glow does not distract us too much, dehypnotized by grace, we continue past heaven into the boundless enormity which dwarfs it. — Stephen Levine

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process. — Hilary Mantel

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand — Oscar Wilde

Regular people wait for someone to take their sins, while deliverers take the sins of the people upon themselves — Sunday Adelaja