"We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals."

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Source : Lama Surya Das (2010). “Awakening To The Sacred”, p.102, Random House

Surya Das

#Spiritual Quotes #Mean Quotes #Goal Quotes

“As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.”
“I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.”

Source : "David Yates Talks HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, Why He Isn’t Directing THE STAND, and His Al Capone Movie". Wizarding World of Harry Potter Interview, collider.com. November 11, 2011.
“Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!”
“My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.”
“Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.”
“Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparableÂ privilegesÂ of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.”
“Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.”
“I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?”

Source : "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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