“One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.” ThinkingWorldTryingSoulDecisionPathNiceThis WorldYour SoulHinduismCoinsRebirthCrosswordsFlipping A Coin Author:Frederick Lenz
“Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.” WorldWayKindStatesMightSpiritualConsciousnessPathMeditationSeeingThis WorldDrugIntenseContemplationAlteredSpiritual PathVery DeepPortalStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Anne Lamott
“When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.” WorldEarthWalksPathThis WorldEqualityLaborers Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.” MenWorldWarPainStrugglePathThis WorldEase Book:The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1910 Source: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1910
“If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.” IfsMenWorldWayLongHelpingNextEasyKnowledgePathThis WorldBrotherAnxietyFaultsIslamBelieverGods WillPursueParadiseRemoveResurrectionSmoothGod HelpDestitute Author:Elijah Muhammad
“Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.” WorldLyingCoursesHeavenImaginationPathThis WorldHonorMilesPerceiveFlatsGestures Book:Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Source: Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
“We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.” PeopleIfsWorldLittlesSometimesHelpingSufferingPathThis WorldPainfulLittle Help Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here.” WorldMomentsHealingPathThis WorldDivision Author:Tara Brach
“The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it” IfsThinkingWorldWayReasonEarthStrongPathDesignThis WorldWeakDareBest WayTemptationAggressiveInvitesAggressionBullyPakistanDefenseless Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions about which paths are the best - or sometimes, the least harmful. There are no abstract formulas. Have to think through each case on its own.” ThinkingWorldSometimesFactsDifficultDecisionCasesPathThis WorldRadicalAbstractActivistFormulasDifficult Decisions Author:Noam Chomsky