“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.” WorldRealSleepLevelsEnvironmentMagicAwarenessHigherElementsEatingFunctionDrinkingPossessionCaringAllowingSoarOur EnvironmentHigher LevelPawns Author:Wayne Dyer
“Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.” ArtFormReligionProduceGrewWorshipFunctionSacredDrinkingExcuseOccasionsTeaPurityHostGuestsMundaneRefinementBeverages Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.” ThinkingShouldMindIdeasEvilRoomsFiveBecomingQuietEatingFunctionDrinkingVariousSettingSettingsDesirableEating And DrinkingQuiet Room Author:Dogen
“Well, God doesn't intervene in many of the situations we would like Him to because He would have to intervene in everything that we say and do that is wrong right the way through to some of the most terrible things happening in nations. What He does is He gives us signs that He is with us and that we can draw help from Him. Jesus changed water into wine. That had no function really. They had already run out of wine in the party so he was only aiding and abetting more drinking.” WayGivingWellsDoeHelpingRunningJesusNationsWaterPartySituationChangedTerribleDrawsHappeningsFunctionWineDrinkingThings HappenTerrible Things Author:Gerald Coates
“Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.” WaterFunctionDrinkingLoadWashingDecreaseTissuesDrinking WaterDrink WaterClean WaterClean Drinking Water Author:Kevin R. Stone
“In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.” TomorrowDrinkMachinesBallsFunctionDrinkingShoesBeerSoleAlleysBowlingBrewing BeerBowling Alleys Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry