Martin Laird quotes

“Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.”
-- Martin Laird

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“God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.”
-- Martin Laird

#Taken Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Bruises Quotes

“Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.”
-- Martin Laird

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“Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.”
-- Martin Laird

#Book Quotes #Jupiter Quotes #Contemplation Quotes

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

Source : "Whip Smart: A Memoir". Book by Melissa Febos, therumpus.net. 2010.

“The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.”

Source : Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

“The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.”

Source : Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

“It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

“What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”

“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”