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“Finding God in All Things.”
Source : Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1991). “Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works”, p.459, Paulist Press
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“Errors are many, truth is unique.”
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“When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!”
Source : 1961 The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.4.
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“Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.”
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“Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.”
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“Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.”
Source : Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.27, Harper Collins
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“Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.”
Source : Twitter post from Sep 6, 2013
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“Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.”