There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
- Topic: Perception, Travel
- Location: Bermuda
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
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On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
