Retreat To The Source Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. 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

#4. Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

Jonathan Friesen

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

Darrell Calkins

#6. To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

John Drinkwater

#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. A man another woman can steal from you ain't your man no way

Alice Randall

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

Darrell Calkins

#10. Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Anatole Broyard

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

Darrell Calkins

#12. If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

Bill Hybels

#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. 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

#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. He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. Love and let flowers of peace bloom.

Debasish Mridha

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

Darrell Calkins

#19. I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

Cara Delevingne

#20. The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

Steve McConnell

#21. As soon as we increase the dimensionality of this proton, it will become very small.

Liu Cixin

#22. Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

#23. In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

Earl Nightingale

#24. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

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

Darrell Calkins

#27. [T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.

Neil Shubin

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was ... this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

Orhan Pamuk

#31. I think,' I said, watching his face for a reaction, 'that fate wants me to become a serial killer,'
He raised an eyebrow; nothing more. I told you he was calm.

Dan Wells