NIN – Love Is Not Enough (YouTube)
“Love is the sun of life; most beautiful in morning and evening; but warmest and steadiest at noon. It is the sun of the soul. Life without love is worse than death; a world without a sun”
Source: The Royal Path of Life.
“How quick we are to form an opinion of a person, to come to a conclusion about them. It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label another human being, to give them a conceptual identity, to pronounce righteous judgment upon them.
Surfing in Australia (YouTube)
“Surfing is a mystery, but with enough romance to draw in droves of disciples. Some put in a season and then fade back into normalcy, unsatisfied with the high or all done mining the lifestyle of its image. Others, however, get hooked in the best way. We are the lucky ones.
ho·mo·pho·bi·a
–noun
unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality.
“To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognising what is primary. Then you can deal with what is secondary with ease. It is not saying “I’m not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now.” No. Find what is primary first, and make the Now into your friend, not your enemy. Acknowledge it, honor it…
“One’s reading is, usually, a fair index of his character. Observe in almost any house you visit, the books which lie customarily on the centre-table; or note what are taken by preference from the public or circulating library; and you may judge, in no small degree, not only the intellectual tastes and the general intelligence of the family, but also and what is of far deeper moment…
“A gentleman is just a gentleman; no more, no less; a diamond polished that was first a diamond in the rough. A gentleman is gentle. A gentleman is modest. A gentleman is courteous. A gentleman is slow to take offense, as being one who never gives it. A gentleman is slow to surmise evil, as being one who never thinks it…
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs” Pablo Picasso.
“John Quincy Adams is well. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering up on its foundation. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered and it trembles with every wind. I think John Quincy will have to move out of it soon. But he himself is quite well, quite well…
“If one picture is worth a thousand words, can a thousand words explicate one picture?” Michael Stephan
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” Margaret Young