"There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it."

-- Rumi

#Ocean Quotes #Body Quotes #Glory Quotes

“No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.”
“Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.”
“I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.”
“I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and no tomorrow â€” there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.”
“Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.”
“My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.”

Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”
“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”

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