James McCormick > James's Quotes

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
― Osho, The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties

“With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.”
― Osho

“Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.”
― Osho

“Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself. ”
― Osho

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.”
― Jocelyn Murray, Khu: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“... Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises