#lace

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. ↗

— Ken Wilber

#brings #ego #enlightened #first #need

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#falls #france #hands #money #paper

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#automatic #been #debate #democratic #democratic society

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ↗

— Tad Williams

#find #friends #furnish #go #head

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#hollywood #instead #observation #place #under

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#aspects #fully #hurt #love #open

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#also #anymore #away #because #being

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started. ↗

— James Young

#great #great stuff #group #i #light

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#future #him #himself #man #men

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#knowledge #numinous #seek-and-you-shall-find #solace #spiritual