The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
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The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.
My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed...At least I live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, They can't take away my dignity. Because the greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to achieve. Learning to LOVE YOURSELf...It is the GREATEST love of all
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.
Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using, very extensively, chiropractors in order to stay healthy and fit. Whenever I had a little problem with my body, I always ran to one of my dear friends, Dr Franco Columbo, he was always right there with the adjustments. This is how I found out the best way of going, is to use chiropractors, not only after injuries , but also before injury.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.
Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.
We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.
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