I Remember A Time When All My Fans Were Crying And Sad And Going Through Hell. Now, We're Trying To Uplift Each Other And Accept Ourselves For Who We Are, Even If Nobody Else Does.
What A Strange Power The Perception Of Beauty Is! It Seems To Ebb And Flow Like Some Secret Tide, Independent Alike Of Health And Disease, Of Joy Or Sorrow. There Are Times In Our Lives When We Seem To Go Singing On Our Way, And When The Beauty Of The World Sets Itself Like A Quiet Harmony To The Song We Uplift.
Awareness Is Our True Self; It's What We Are. So We Don't Have To Try To Develop Awareness; We Simply Need To Notice How We Block Awareness With Our Thoughts, Our Fantasies, Our Opinions, And Our Judgments. We're Either In Awareness, Which Is Our Natural State, Or We're Doing Something Else.
Do Not Imagine That Art Is Something Which Is Designed To Give Gentle Uplift And Self-confidence . Art Is Not A Brassiere. At Least, Not In The English Sense. But Do Not Forget That Brassiere Is The French Word For Life-jacket.
You Put Together Two People Who Have Not Been Put Together Before; And Sometimes The World Is Changed, Sometimes Not. They May Crash And Burn, Or Burn And Crash. But Sometimes, Something New Is Made, And Then The World Is Changed. Together, In That First Exaltation, That First Roaring Sense Of Uplift, They Are Greater Than Their Two Separate Selves. Together, They See Further, And They See More Clearly.
Luck? I Don't Know Anything About Luck. I've Never Banked On It And I'm Afraid Of People Who Do. Luck To Me Is Something Else: Hard Work - And Realizing What Is Opportunity And What Isn't.
There Is A 'sanctity' Involved With Bringing A Child Into This World: It Is Better Than Bombing One Out Of It.
True Faith Nor Biddeth Nor Abideth Form, The Bended Knee, The Eye Uplift; Is All Which Men Need Render; All Which God Can Bear. What To The Faith Are Forms? A Passing Speck, A Crow Upon The Sky.
A Total Spiritual Direction Given To The Whole Life And The Whole Nature Can Alone Lift Humanity Beyond Itself. . . It Is Only The Full Emergence Of The Soul, The Full Descent Of The Native Light And Power Of The Spirit And The Consequent Replacement Or Transformation And Uplifting Of Our Insufficient Mental And Vital Nature By A Spiritual And Supramental Supernature That Can Effect This Evolutionary Miracle.
