#path

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human experience, we risk becoming recruited to their welfare.' I allow my empathy to be engaged, and once it is - because my feelings help teach me what my values are - I'm on the path for which there is no return. I am inexorably an advocate when I allow my empathy to be engaged. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#inspirational #experience

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#beautiful #corners #cow #droop #eyes

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place. ↗

— Yusef Lateef

#body #higher #hold #looks #mind

One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#crush #danger #extra #extra-mile #food-for-thought

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God. ↗

— Amy Levy

#beaten #content #go #god #marriage

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. ↗

— John Linder

#colonies #could #during #fathers #fifty

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#broken #friendships #must #path #social

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#arm #awakens #badge #between #certain

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself