"Suffering = Pain x Resistance"

-- Shinzen Young

#Strength Quotes #Pain Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.”

Source : Liang Zhuge, Liu Ji (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.90, Shambhala Publications
“As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.”

Source : George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press
“God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.”
“I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.”

Source : "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.
“I will not use people's lives as bargaining chips.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.”
“Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.”
“I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.”

Source : Albert Hofmann (1983). “LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science”, J P Tarcher

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