Vimala Thakar Quotes

#1. Your path is clear," said Moon Man. "You need to find it."
And the best way to find something you had lost was to return to the last place you remembered having it. In my case, I needed to start at the very beginning.

Maria V. Snyder

#2. There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Thomas Brooks

#3. The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

George Saunders

#4. Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

Vimala Thakar

#5. I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#6. Life is in the here and now.
Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

Vimala Thakar

#7. Entitlement is a foreign concept to me.

Vann Chow

#8. To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

Vimala Thakar

#9. I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Graham Roberts

#10. I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'

Jackie McLean

#11. Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

Vimala Thakar

#12. I never had a true childhood.

Bethenny Frankel

#13. Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.

Vimala Thakar

#14. Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :(

Rahul R Singh

#15. Always listening, listening to the wet fluid speech with no order, unfinished stories, badly told jokes that he sober as a spider perfected in silence.

Michael Ondaatje

#16. Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

Vimala Thakar

#17. As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

Vimala Thakar

#18. The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life
is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

Vimala Thakar

#19. When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

Vimala Thakar

#20. When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.

Vimala Thakar

#21. Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#22. I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Liz Phair

#23. You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.

Vimala Thakar

#24. When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person ... there can be no liberty.

Baron De Montesquieu