Tilting Table Quotes & Sayings

In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able to teach, why talk about it? Since listening isn't really hearing or attaining anything, then why listen? But say, since it cannot be explained or heard, how can you enter the Way? But down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this? — John Daido Loori

I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening. — Woody Allen

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard. — Gal Gadot

Being high felt as if half of me was wandering lost in the streets and half of me was calling out, hoping that I'd make it back before someone took advantage. — Daphne Scholinski

There is perhaps nothing so remarkable about Jesus than the fact that he advanced himself as the object of faith, love, and obedience, and yet he comes across as the most humble man to walk the face of the earth. — Douglas Sean O'Donnell

in simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is. — Abhijit Naskar

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance. — Thom S. Rainer

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. — Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen. — Annie Parisse

A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song. — Roland Orzabal

The two women sat by the fire, tilting their glasses and drinking in small peaceful sips. The lamplight shone upon the tidy room and the polished table, lighting topaz in the dandelion wine, spilling pools of crimson through the flanks of the bottle of plum gin. It shone on the contented drinkers, and threw their large, close-at-hand shadows upon the wall. When Mrs Leak smoothed her apron the shadow solemnified the gesture as though she were moulding an universe. Laura's nose and chin were defined as sharply as the peaks peaks on a holly leaf. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I don't know - " the right corner of his lip quirked upward, " - I can eat a lot. I could probably eat you and not think twice about it." He leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table, tilting his shoulders closer to me. "Do you think you're up for that kind of a challenge, little girl?"
"Bring it on. — A.M. Hudson

I try to be really balanced. I walk a lot, I wear a Fitbit, and that has really been a game changer for me. I get my steps, I eat whatever I want, I go to France and put on my bread-and-butter suit. Then I'll be balanced, like I'm going to eat my salads for a few days. But I just try to be really balanced with my body. And that has been a good pact for me so far. — Abigail Spencer

If you take the meaning out of the world, all that's left is controlling each other. — L.T. Vargus

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life. — Gina Rodriguez