Retreat With Darrell Calkins Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

Victor Hugo

#3. But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

Gerald Durrell

#4. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

#6. If someone asked me to pick out my own vagina's mug shot out of a lineup of vaginas, I'd be helpless. And probably concerned about what exactly my vagina had been doing that constituted a need for its own mug shot.

Jenny Lawson

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

Darrell Calkins

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

Darrell Calkins

#9. 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

#10. When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.

John Lasseter

#11. Want to become a champion? Then build your successes on a solid foundation of failure!

Jan Garavaglia

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

Darrell Calkins

#13. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Use your money to meet the need of your neighbor

Sunday Adelaja

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

Darrell Calkins

#19. Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.

Margaret Thatcher

#20. The game's the thing. That's the conventional wisdom, isn't it? The fun is what matters, not the victory. To glory in the defeat of another, to need that purchased pride, is to show you are incomplete and inadequate to start with.

Iain M. Banks

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

Darrell Calkins

#22. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

#24. I'd love to hear what confident, intelligent women in the industry have to say: Rachel McAdams, Carey Mulligan, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey. I would stand in line all day for that panel.

Nina Dobrev

#25. 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