H. W. L. Poonja Quotes
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.
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And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.
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Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
