Radiances Quotes

#1. Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.

Frederick Lenz

#2. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

Victor Hugo

#3. Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

Frederick Lenz

#4. As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

Frederick Lenz

#5. We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.

Frederick Lenz

#6. But a time came when her patience gave out; and wearying of being a lion, she became a bear in nature as in name, and returning to her den, growled awfully when ordered out.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

Spencer Wells

#8. Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

T. S. Eliot

#9. Humor is the observation of an unprejudiced heart

Marsha Boulton

#10. There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card.

Erika Swyler

#11. I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#13. Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.

Bill Lipinski

#14. First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

Alice Walker

#15. Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#16. You think you can make me like you again?"
I look over at her and give my head the slightest shake. "No. I'm gonna make you fall in love with me again.

Colleen Hoover

#17. I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.

Charlize Theron

#18. I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.

Meryl Davis