Sam > Sam's Quotes

“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”
― Rumi

“‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”
― Rumi

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The nature of any given probable action does not lead to any particular inevitable act." [16]”
― Lynda Madden Dahl, The Wizards of Consciousness: Making the Imponderable Practical

“True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts." [5]”
― Lynda Madden Dahl, The Wizards of Consciousness: Making the Imponderable Practical

“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering.” (pp.69-70)”
― Michael Benanav, Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold

“a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor,”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram