Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it. ”

Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas. ”

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year. ”

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters. ”

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love. ”

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. ”

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. ”

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player. ”

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic. ”

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ”