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“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”
― A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
― A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space

“The spiders will always hatch out of the flowers. But now I like to think about the moments before, when they're just flowers, blooming, and they can be pinched closed, so all that prettiness last a little longer before the inevitable horror comes.”
― Scream All Night
― Scream All Night

“It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.”
― The Black Prince
― The Black Prince

“YOU鈥橰E NO ANGEL, you know how this stuff comes to happen: Friday is payday and it鈥檚 been a gray day sogged by a slow ugly rain and you seek company in your gloom, and since you鈥檙e fresh to West Table, Mo., and a new hand at the dog-food factory, your choices for company are narrow but you find some finally in a trailer court on East Main, and the coed circle of bums gathered there spot you a beer, then a jug of tequila starts to rotate and the rain keeps comin鈥� down with a miserable bluesy beat and there鈥檚 two girls millin鈥� about that probably can be had but they seem to like certain things and crank is one of those certain things, and a fistful of party straws tumble from a woven handbag somebody brung, the crank gets cut into lines, and the next time you notice the time it鈥檚 three or four Sunday mornin鈥� and you ain鈥檛 slept since Thursday night and one of the girl voices, the one you want most and ain鈥檛 had yet though her teeth are the size of shoe-peg corn and look like maybe they鈥檇 taste sort of sour, suggests something to do, 鈥檆ause with crank you want something, anything, to do, and this cajoling voice suggests we all rob this certain house on this certain street in that rich area where folks can afford to wallow in their vices and likely have a bunch of recreational dope stashed around the mansion and goin鈥� to waste since an article in The Scroll said the rich people whisked off to France or some such on a noteworthy vacation.
That鈥檚 how it happens.
Can鈥檛 none of this be new to you.”
― Tomato Red
That鈥檚 how it happens.
Can鈥檛 none of this be new to you.”
― Tomato Red

“Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.”
― ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
― ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que viv铆a un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, roc铆n flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo m谩s vaca que carnero, salpic贸n las m谩s noches, duelos y quebrantos los s谩bados, lentejas los viernes, alg煤n palomino de a帽adidura los domingos, conmu铆an las tres partes de su hacienda. El resto della conclu铆an sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de los mesmo, y los d铆as de entresemana se honraba con su vellor铆 de lo m谩s fino.”
― Don Quijote de la Mancha
― Don Quijote de la Mancha

“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”
― Hunger
― Hunger

“The sun woke at the dawn of the day. Nova woke up, brushing her hair quickly. She brushed her teeth, and then she hurried into the kitchen where her adoptive mother, Silvia, had waited for her. Silvia had adopted Nova when she was just a baby, left on the castle's front steps. It was from then on that Silvia raised her as her daughter.”
― Finding Time
― Finding Time

“Cosmic love is your birthright. Meditative sensitivity opens you up to the higher realms of existence. The explosive cosmic and soul love we seek can only be experienced when your heart is fully open first.”
― Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
― Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships

“Monogamous relationships can be based on fear: fear of losing my partner because he might fall in love with another woman, or fear that she may find a more secure man with a deeper purpose than my own to guide and protect her.
鈥淣evertheless it also can be based on love where our commitment to open and be opened by one intimate partner becomes our way to express love for him or her, our children, friends, and ultimately the whole world and Source.”
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鈥淣evertheless it also can be based on love where our commitment to open and be opened by one intimate partner becomes our way to express love for him or her, our children, friends, and ultimately the whole world and Source.”
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“To make the best dicision for a book first check out the title, second check out the cover, third to check out the category what type is it - is it a horror or thriller or it's a psychology - it's important this. Then for sure check out little what's about the book. By openning it and reading the first 3 pages or as much as possible to make your decision!”
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“Leadership is about opening minds to possibilities once closed from believing in impossibilities.”
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“But listen, actually I love what I'm doing. And making parts for doors - I think it's the most important job a man can have."
She started to laugh but he raised a hand to stop her. "I'm not joking. Think about it. What would civilization be without a door? Think of what a closed door can hide - tears, intimate relations, scandals, murders, mysteries, family secrets, national secrets. Countries spend millions trying to get behind each other's closed doors, no? So do lovers, Conversely, think of what an open door symbolizes - an invitation into someone's home, someone's heart, an entry into a kitchen, a dining room, a bank vault, even" - here his voice dripped a notch - "a bedroom. And what is it that makes it possible to have all those doors opening and shutting?" He paused, looking at her expectantly.
Tehmina felt dizzy under the spell of Ruston's words. "What?" she said stupidly.
"Hinges," he yelled triumphantly. "It's the humble hinge that lets one decide whether to lock the world out or to let it in. See why what I do is so important?”
― If Today Be Sweet
She started to laugh but he raised a hand to stop her. "I'm not joking. Think about it. What would civilization be without a door? Think of what a closed door can hide - tears, intimate relations, scandals, murders, mysteries, family secrets, national secrets. Countries spend millions trying to get behind each other's closed doors, no? So do lovers, Conversely, think of what an open door symbolizes - an invitation into someone's home, someone's heart, an entry into a kitchen, a dining room, a bank vault, even" - here his voice dripped a notch - "a bedroom. And what is it that makes it possible to have all those doors opening and shutting?" He paused, looking at her expectantly.
Tehmina felt dizzy under the spell of Ruston's words. "What?" she said stupidly.
"Hinges," he yelled triumphantly. "It's the humble hinge that lets one decide whether to lock the world out or to let it in. See why what I do is so important?”
― If Today Be Sweet
“How to Jump: Once again we stand before our audience. The _Others_ wait for us to speak. Still we ask, how can we jump free? How can we speak. I say, turn inward. Feel the fear. Again, touch where it resides鈥攜es, just above the solar plexus, that one glowing spot in painful spasm. Feel it. for there we can begin with something we know is _real_. And now can we jump?
Sometimes when I begin a speech, I look each member of the audience in the eyes. In a large group it sometimes takes a half minute or more. The silence grows uncomfortable. the people stare back. I hear the nervous coughs. But something has happened between us. Without words, I have shared with them the same feelings I suffer. I have felt fear, and then turn, have felt its discomfort in the pressing silence in the room.
Finally I begin, 鈥淚t鈥� is all right for us to feel uncomfortable as we launch our relationship. We do not know each other. We have no experience upon which to trust each other. Why shouldn鈥檛 we feel uncomfortable. I wondered as I looked at you what you expect of me. What do you think of me? And as I look at you, you too, must have wondered what I am thinking of you.鈥� I have jumped. 鈥淲e are going to have a valuable time together.鈥� I have broken free.”
― How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day
Sometimes when I begin a speech, I look each member of the audience in the eyes. In a large group it sometimes takes a half minute or more. The silence grows uncomfortable. the people stare back. I hear the nervous coughs. But something has happened between us. Without words, I have shared with them the same feelings I suffer. I have felt fear, and then turn, have felt its discomfort in the pressing silence in the room.
Finally I begin, 鈥淚t鈥� is all right for us to feel uncomfortable as we launch our relationship. We do not know each other. We have no experience upon which to trust each other. Why shouldn鈥檛 we feel uncomfortable. I wondered as I looked at you what you expect of me. What do you think of me? And as I look at you, you too, must have wondered what I am thinking of you.鈥� I have jumped. 鈥淲e are going to have a valuable time together.鈥� I have broken free.”
― How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day

“Faith is envisioning a closed-door opening, even if you do not know how it will eventually happen.”
― The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
― The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“People were wondering why the Desoto Solar Farm community opening had been canceled and replaced by a small group of invite only guests with President Obama.”
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“The Desoto Solar Farm launch was one of the most boring days of my life! We were standing around in the Florida heat for hours waiting for President Obama to show up!”
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“The darkness is expanding鈥攕ixty days of night looming on the horizon鈥攕o I step out onto my porch and take a deep breath, the cold air burning my nostrils and making my lungs ache. There is so much to do, so much pain to repurpose into the void. I rub my hands together to warm them, already dressed in layers鈥攍ong thermal underwear over boxers, two pairs of wool socks鈥攚ith more to come. The morning is brisk, hoarfrost sparkling across the snow-covered ground, but I know I can鈥檛 stand here for long. I inhale again鈥攋uniper, salt, a whiff of fish, my own musk鈥攁nd take in my humble abode, knowing that the season is upon us, preparing for what will come. It is both invigorating and daunting at the same time. (Opening paragraph, first chapter.)”
― Incarnate: A Novel
― Incarnate: A Novel
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