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  • Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Real Quotes
  • It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Yauch Quotes , Real Quotes , Teaching Quotes
  • In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Real Quotes
  • The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fear Quotes , Real Quotes
  • Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Real Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Real Quotes , Self Quotes
  • I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours." Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Real Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Maslow Quotes , Love Quotes , Real Quotes
  • The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fun Quotes , Real Quotes