Sengcan Faith Quotes & Sayings

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be. — Joyce Carol Oates

It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. — Henry David Thoreau

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing. — Noel Coward

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus

Everything starts from home. If the father isn't there, then the friends are going to step up to influence the young boy astray. This is where the problems come in, because in my community the majority of the children do not have any fathers in the home. I can only speak for my community. This is why with the young guys who do hang around me, I always do my best to encourage them. I have already lived the negative side on the streets, so I prefer to encourage them on the positive side - to encourage them to get a job, save their money and to do something for their families.Franco 'Co' Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge. — Drexel Deal

3 Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. — Anonymous

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. — Carlos Fuentes

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power. — Sengcan

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. — Galen Rowell

One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind. — Sengcan

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience. — Andrew Saul

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God. — Elias Hicks

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. — Johnny Ball

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it. — Bobby Moynihan

He's a politician, Tomas; he looks at every situation as to how it will benefit himself, and cares little of the cost to others." "You — Jan Stryvant