Zalman Shalomi Quotes

#1. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

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#2. On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.

Jim Rash

#3. Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The

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#4. The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

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#5. elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

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#6. No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

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#7. [On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. I finally felt ready to put my broken
love to rest. But, you couldn't put something to rest when it kept coming back to haunt you.

Tarryn Fisher

#9. In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

Tallulah Bankhead

#10. Ben tasted like wine; felt animal beneath her hands; chased away the shadows until her room was only darkness, only them, nothing wicked.

Lauren Gilley

#11. I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#12. Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

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#13. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.

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#14. I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Mark Haddon

#15. It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

John Irving

#16. Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

Annie Besant

#17. Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

Dean Smith

#18. God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

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#19. The greatest happiness is seeing the people you love happy.

Marty Rubin

#20. Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

Bernard Sahlins

#22. When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

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#23. Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

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#24. Clarity is a perception; it's an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.

Pearl Zhu