#pen

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#animated #art #childhood #i #interested

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#existing #investigation #open #phenomena #science

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#books #draw #family #family member #hero

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#happens #reason #say #something

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that it is through the inner female side that we find the depth within ourselves – independent of if we are a man or a woman. It is through the female side that we find the inner source of love and truth. It is through the female side that we lit the light of our own consciousness. The more we learn to know the inner man and woman and the more we accept their different visions of life, the more a meeting happens between them that makes us happy and satisfied. Through embracing both these sides in ourselves, we realize that we really lack nothing – but that we already are love. When both the male and female side is capable of living in trust, a love begins to flow between them – a love that was always possible, but not realized. The inner woman is the meditative quality within ourselves. The inner woman is the source of love and truth. The inner woman is the capacity to surrender to life. It is through the inner woman that we are in contact with life. It is the inner woman that is the door to belongingness with the Whole. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#devotion #freedom #harmony #independence #inner-man-and-woman

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! ↗

— Andrew Gross

#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#appear #either #faults #high #lady

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#depend #many #rarely #succeed

Always wear expensive shoes. People notice. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#expensive #notice #people #shoes #wear

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#autonomous #between #citizens #external #free