Anagarika Quotes

#1. She trailed her fingers down his sternum, then splayed her hand flat against his stomach. How interesting, to feel so comfortable in another person's skin. To want to rip him open and crawl inside him and never see the light of day again.

Stylo Fantome

#2. The faculty of continual transformation ... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

Anagarika Govinda

#3. Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into hands, a poem or memory-laden fragrance may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life.

Anagarika Govinda

#4. Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along.

Susanna Clarke

#5. A real Guru's initiation is beyond the divisions of sects and creeds: it is the awakening to our own inner reality which, once glimpsed, determines our further course of development and our actions in life without the enforcement of outer rules.

Anagarika Govinda

#6. To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Anagarika Govinda

#7. Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

Anaxagoras

#8. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.

Patrick Ness

#9. I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

Nicolas Cage

#10. The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

#11. To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Tracy Austin

#12. The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

Anagarika Govinda

#13. The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

Anagarika Govinda

#14. The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

Anagarika Govinda

#15. The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.

Anagarika Govinda

#16. Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Issey Miyake

#17. Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

Anagarika Govinda

#18. Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

Nicolas Roeg

#19. The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world

Anagarika Govinda

#20. Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

Anagarika Govinda

#21. Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

Anagarika Dharmapala

#22. The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

Anagarika Govinda

#23. women have emotional needs, men have egotistical needs.

Michael Baisden

#24. Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world.

Anagarika Govinda

#25. Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!

Karen Cushman

#26. Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Anagarika Govinda

#27. Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

Anagarika Govinda

#28. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.

Simon Sinek