Quotes
Authors
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
"Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being." --
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
#Wise Quotes
#Spiritual Quotes
#Mother Quotes
“The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”
“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”
Source : Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.63, Weiser Books
“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.”
“The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.”
“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”
“I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.”
“Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.”
