Rabari Community Quotes & Sayings

Do you really want to be converted? Are you willing to be transformed? Or do you keep clutching your old ways of life with one hand while with the other you beg people to for help you change?
Conversion is certainly not something you can bring about yourself. It is not a question of willpower. You have to trust the inner voice that shows the way. You know that inner voice. You turn to it often. But after you have heard with clarity what you are asked to do, you start raising questions, fabricating objections,, and seeking everyone else's opinion. Thus you become entangles in countless often contradictory thoughts, feelings, and ideas and lose touch with the God in you. And you end up dependent on all the people you have gathered around you.
Excerpt from:The Inner Voice of Love From Anguish to Freedom by Henry Nouwen — Henri J.M. Nouwen

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. — Penelope Keith

It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. — Henry Rollins

I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.
[Letter to Mathew Carey, 11 November 1816] — Thomas Jefferson

As your enemies and your friends, so are you — Johann Kaspar Lavater

If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver! — I.R. Shankar

It was a flaking scab on a fleshy field of neglect. — Hunter Shea

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. — William Adams

The heart has the ability to drive your reality, put into action by your thoughts and intuition. — Steven Redhead

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. — J.B. Priestley

Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had. — George Eliot

With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate. — Esther Hicks

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary. — Jason Biggs