Cobaltsaffron Darrell Calkins Quotes

#1. Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone's cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.

Darrell Calkins

#2. Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.

Darrell Calkins

#3. Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

Michael Ende

#4. You watch the world. I'm not even sure you live in it.

Rebecca Maizel

#5. An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go.

Darrell Calkins

#6. Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was,

Larry McMurtry

#7. One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.

Darrell Calkins

#8. Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.

Darrell Calkins

#9. Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality.

Darrell Calkins

#10. Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Sam Neill

#11. If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.

Darrell Calkins

#12. Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in.

Darrell Calkins

#13. Sustainable serenity, joy and fulfillment demand greater spiritual virtuosity, which is only found through deeper integration of conscience into the mix of one's core intent.

Darrell Calkins

#14. The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature's demands) nor from heaven (Nature's callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one's essential spirit becomes.

Darrell Calkins

#15. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.

Darrell Calkins

#16. If you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.

Darrell Calkins

#17. This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.

Darrell Calkins

#18. One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas.

Darrell Calkins

#19. I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

Jamal Lewis

#20. The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#21. Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue.

Darrell Calkins

#22. Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question.

Darrell Calkins

#23. If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.

Darrell Calkins

#24. A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.

Darrell Calkins

#25. A state of grace is when everything imperfect disappears, leaving just stripped-down harmony. One is left empty, with nothing except a fluid open sensation, similar to becoming the sound from a tuning fork piercing through space.

Darrell Calkins

#26. The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative ... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

Jazmine Sullivan