Quotes About Boundaries

A line has been drawn around her hut. She has been told very clearly that only within the line do the laws of culture apply; here she is Ram's wife. Outside is nature, where the rules of marriage make no sense; she is just a woman for the taking.

Here the world has no beginning, no end, no value, no purpose. All meaning is created by humans, individually and collectively: the boundaries we establish and fight over.

According to the Jatakas, the Buddha was born as a frog in one of his previous lives. He saw a snake being attacked by a school of fish. The snake asked, 'Is this appropriate?' to which the frog replied, 'You eat the fish when they enter your territory. The fish attack you when you enter theirs. Considering the context,

Within there is regard for the law of marriage; without there isn't any. Within, Sita is Rama's wife. Outside, she is a woman for the taking. Ravana knows that if he enters Rama's hut and forces himself on Sita he will be judged by the rules of society. But when he forces himself on Sita outside the Lakshmana-rekha, he will be judged by the laws of the jungle. Within, he will be the villain who disregarded the laws of marriage. Outside, he will be hero, the great trickster.

If you can empathize with the fears that make people heroes, villains and victims, then you are doing darshan. For then you look beyond the boundaries that separate you from the rest.

Where there are no boundaries, there is no violation.

You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out.

Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

I said go away!" "No, you said 'get out'. I'm out." "Now go away." Silence. And then, "No.

I think it's vital that we do not sleep together. You know, for the safety of the world." His eyes sparkled and there was just a hint of a smile at the corners of his mouth. "Okay," I said, and smiled back at him. "But kissing is allowed, right?" "Oh, definitely," he said, pulling me close. "After all, the warrior always wins the heart of the fair young...man.

How did anyone see the stars and not wish for more than the confinement they were born to?

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Do learn to say no. Many people will take and take from you, and keep on taking. They will drain you, aggravate you, impose upon you, and take advantage of you—if you let them do it. Your job is not to let them.

When men become a caricature of their worst qualities and this caricature is baptized as important and right, boundaries become impossible to maintain.

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.121

When one no longer knows what one owes oneself and others, where the sense for human quality and the strength to respect boundaries cease to exist, chaos is at the door. When for the sake of material comfort one tolerates impudence, one has already surrendered, there the floods of chaos have been permitted to burst the dam at the place where it was to be defended, and one becomes guilty of all that follows.

It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.

She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.

And truly, when I think about it, no one owes me a proper and truthful account of their life. And I don't owe anyone veracity when t comes to mine.