John William Willis-Bund famous quotes

To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed that dominate our current culture.
-- John William Willis-Bund

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There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.