Coleman Barks Quotes
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."
Quotes to Explore
-
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
-
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
-
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
-
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
-
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
-
People trash talk me.
-
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
-
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
-
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
-
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
-
The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
-
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
-
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
-
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
-
There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
-
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
-
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
-
Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
-
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
-
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
-
Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.
-
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
-
I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
-
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."
