How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give It a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
Gratitude _x000D_ is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than _x000D_ your ego is always at work and always available.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.
I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.
You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part--don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved _x000D_ Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. For I have seen too _x000D_ much hate... every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.
You are saved, not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did. And you are special, not because of what you do, but because of whose you are. And you are his. And because we are his, let's forget the shortcuts and stay on the main road. He knows the way. He drew the map. He knows the way home.
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