"By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home."

-- Sharon Salzberg

#Home Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Meditation Quotes

“When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.”
“You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.”

Source : "Interview:Clive Owen & Jude Law" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.
“I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.”
“Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.”
“It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.”
“You always learn something from mistakes.”
“In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.”

Source : The Millstone (1965)

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