10 quotes found
“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”
“Im not denying their kindness, said the Rani. But after all kindness isnt the only virtue.”
“Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.”
“Its dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though youre feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope...”
“It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look a...”
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the hum...”
“It's dark because you're trying too hard," said Susila. "Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. 'Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to le...”
“Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nat...”
“the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub...”
“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and se...”
