Enza Quotes

#1. Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

Adriana Trigiani

#2. Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything

Adriana Trigiani

#3. Enza studied the photograph of her parents on their wedding day as if it were a map. In a sense it was, as they were creating a destination, a life together.

Adriana Trigiani

#4. Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota.

Adriana Trigiani

#5. There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament.

Adriana Trigiani

#6. There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself.

Enza Vita

#7. It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

Enza Vita

#8. We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

Enza Vita

#9. Getting a well-rounded education and developing a love of learning that hopefully will continue to last my lifetime certainly helped prepare me to understand what's coming at me in this world and to adapt.

Len Elmore

#10. Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are.

Enza Vita

#11. Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

Enza Vita

#12. Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute.

Enza Vita

#13. A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Marya Mannes

#14. The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Enza Vita

#15. Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

Enza Vita

#16. It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Mary Renault

#17. But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Salman Rushdie

#18. My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.

Christopher Castellani

#19. When there's a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there's public input, the people usually win.

Morgan Carroll

#20. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Enza Vita