Seminar With Darrell Calkins 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. 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. I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Fidel Castro

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

Darrell Calkins

#5. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

#7. Don't be too eager to rid yourself of your burdens. Your burdens are what shape you.

J. Scott Savage

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

Darrell Calkins

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

#12. But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Jerry Garcia

#13. One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.

Billy Graham

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

Darrell Calkins

#16. Still, when someone who is mistreated in their home travels very far and under horrible conditions to get to yours, shouldn't you at least offer them shelter and something to eat and drink until they sort things out? It seems like common courtesy to me.

Meg Cabot

#17. When I got home from school, I never knew which mood of my mom was gonna be on the other side of the door. I didn't know what I was gonna get when I turned the doorknob. That's very good preparation if you want to be a producer.

Gary Dell'Abate

#18. The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

Sue Kelly

#19. 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

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

Darrell Calkins

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

Darrell Calkins

#22. I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.

Amy Bloom

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

Darrell Calkins

#24. 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

#25. The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people.

Leo Tolstoy