Alice Walker Quotes, Self Quotes, Meditation Quotes

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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