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The Apostle John said, " Beloved, now we are the sons of God." He didn't say by and by we are going to become sons of God. He said we are that now, today, this moment._x000D__x000D__x000D_" Now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shallsee him as he is"

"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too."_x000D_Gatsby's eyes opened and closed._x000D_"You loved me too?" he repeated._x000D_"Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget."

They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

The Silk Worm_x000D__x000D__x000D_I stood before a silk worm one day. _x000D__x000D_And that night my heart said to me, _x000D__x000D__x000D_"I can do things like that, I can spin skies,_x000D__x000D_I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;_x000D__x000D_I can be soft against a crying face,_x000D__x000D_I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet_x000D__x000D_throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred."_x000D__x000D__x000D_And I replied to my heart,_x000D__x000D_"Dear, can you really do all those things?"_x000D__x000D__x000D_And it just nodded "Yes" in silence. _x000D__x000D__x000D_So we began and will never cease.

One cricket said to another -_x000D__x000D_come, let us be ridiculous, and say love!_x000D__x000D_love love love love love_x000D__x000D_let us be absurd, woman, and say hate!_x000D__x000D_hate hate hate hate hate_x000D__x000D_and then let us be angelic_x000D__x000D_ and say nothing.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,_x000D__x000D_But I grow old and I forget your name._x000D__x000D_(I think I made you up inside my head.)

It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" _x000D_"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" _x000D_"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. _x000D_"It's the same thing," he said. _x000D_"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. _x000D_"Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. _x000D_"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. _x000D_"It is," I said. _x000D_"That's not about Taoism," he said. _x000D_"Oh, yes it is," I said.

Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.

We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.