Quotes & Sayings About The Beast In Lotf

Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufis compare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the love of God flows. This cup, however, needs to be emptied before it can be filled with Divine love. This emptying is a long process that requires courage, strength of character, determination, and, above all, sincerity. It is a process of reining in and eventually extinguishing the ego, of letting go of material needs, bad and unhealthy habits and emotional attachments in order to make room for God. Sufis often likened it to the process of dying and being born again. 'Die before you die' is a famous Sufi saying. This was the essence of every spiritual path, Gai told me. — Kristiane Backer

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful. — Eileen Atkins

Did anyone ever have a boring dream? — Ralph Hodgson

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. — Mark Kingwell

I'll do almost anything for a laugh. — Melissa McCarthy

He had no illusions about his addiction to her. She had her fingers sunk firmly into his heart, and could do with it what she wished. — Julie Kagawa

I was the best man at the wedding ... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him? — Jerry Seinfeld

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman ... is a despot; the average man is a serf. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

As NONE of this is RELEVANT to TODAY'S TOPIC, which is the Scorching. Ahem. — Tui T. Sutherland

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. — Gary Kleck

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings. — Natalie Cole

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always. — Ryu Murakami

Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass. — Carolyn Hax