Quotes About Paradise

A Terrestrial Paradise, an Amazon Island, abounding in gold and certainly 'infested with many griffins.

Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The road to this paradise was not so comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has proved itself as trustworthy, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place where the dead are laid to rest. Just the place the Dominator would come. He walks around here and probably imagines a whole harem of sleeping women right beneath his feet.

I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth and death. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. -But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who; after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat. -Thich Nhat Hanh

To make hell into paradise, we only need to change the mind on which it is based. [...] With your deluded mind, you make hell for yourself. With your true mind, you make paradise.

Nirvana isn't merchandise for sale. Any religion can sell a paradise, a pure land, or nirv??a. But is nirv??a a product that the Buddha and ancestral teachers want to sell us? Is it a promised land or paradise up in the sky, which people try to sell us saying: "If you follow our religion, if you become a member of our congregation, then after you die you will have nirv??a or the Kingdom of Heaven"? We can see clearly that it is not.

They did not know that when the mind divides reality up, when it judges and discriminates, it kills paradise. Please do not scold the sunlight. Do not chastise the clear stream or the little birds of spring.

Si sólo te fijas en tu sufrimiento, perderás el paraíso. No ignores tu sufrimiento, pero no te olvides tampoco de disfrutar de las maravillas de la vida, en beneficio tuyo y en el de todos los seres.

If you dwell only in your suffering, you will miss paradise.

Bali is one of those places you can just keep going back to, and everything is there: the infrastructure, the culture, the art, the beautiful villas. My wife Liv and I go there quite often because we know that when we do arrive, it's like an instant holiday.

Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.

Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.

I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Welcome to Mount Olympus," she said, "where there's never any wind, it only rains at night, and every day is sunny.

B?nuiesc c? oamenii au nevoie de muzic? pentru c? au nevoie de memoria Paradisului ?i nu exist? un alt mod de a-l reintegra decât prin intermediul muzicii ?i al iubirii. Dac? este adev?rat c? am c?zut dintr-un absolut, atunci singurul mod în care îl putem recupera cu mijloacele noastre fizice, intuitive, este muzica, pentru c? muzica este singura dintre arte care poate realiza acest transport într-o form? direct? ?i rapid?.

Matsu once told me the bridge represented the samurai's difficult path from this world to the afterlife. When you reach the top of the bridge, you can see your way to paradise. I feel as if the past few days have given me a glimpse of that. To simply live a life without fear has been a true paradise.

Then she turned and pointed to Matsu's newly built wooden bridge. It was an exact replica of the original, its ascending and descending curves forming a perfect arch. "Matsu once told me the bridge represented the samurai's difficult path from this world to the afterlife. When you reach the top of the bridge, you can see your way to paradise. I feel as if the past few days have given me a glimpse of that. To simply live a life without fear has been a true paradise.

Lucky come Hawai'i." History

They all tended to portray a gloomy dark world where the unrighteous dead suffered in one form or another. The righteous dead, however were taken away to garden paradises, or "Isles of the Blessed.

This is my favorite sister and wife, Awan," said Cain. "Welcome to 'the Hidden Valley', my 'Garden away from the Garden,' I like to say. I have always had a green thumb. So I put it to good use." Lamech remembered from stories that Cain was a worker of the ground. This secret paradise was a breathtaking incarnation of God-given skill.

Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

In the 1840s the Nisqually Glacier reached about nine hundred feet past the Nisqually River bridge on the Paradise Road. Today the terminus sits more than a mile upvalley. The Carbon is currently in mild retreat; the ice at the terminus is melting back faster than the motion of the glacier can push it ahead. It has shrunk twenty feet every year since 1986.