When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done. ~Josh Turner
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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