Vadinho Freire Quotes & Sayings

A divine revelation should not consist only in uprooting us from the world's profanity in order to install us statically within a sacred world, in the bosom of which we could continue to lead almost the same life we led in the profane world. To enter into revelation is not merely to change objects as we do furniture. It is to be converted. Not to be converted once, but to be converted always. Sacred forms, rites, symbols and the Scriptures are basically conversion-makers, which means that we are never done with converting, never done with understanding, because they perplex and surpass all understanding. — Jean Borella

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted. — Frederick Reines

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free. — Gloria Steinem

Dream of me, Maddy. See me as I want to be; not the nightmare who torments you, but the devoted and mystified man who worships at your feet. — M.S. Willis

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires. — Gurcharan Das

You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost ... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed. — Lucy Christopher

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

God visits suffering on innocent people of scope and scale that would even embarrass the most ambitious psychopath — Sam Harris

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be. — Cat Stevens