PHYLIS DILLER. 1917-2012 COMEDIAN
A SMILE IS AN ARC THAT SETS EVERYTHIKN G STRAIGHT.
I NEVER MADE Who’s Who,” but I’m featured om “What’s That?”
I ONCE WORE a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo.
WHATEVER YOU MAY LOOK LIKE, MARRY A MAN YOUR OWN AGE — AS YOUR BEAUTY FADES, SO WILL HIS EYESIGHT.
MY HUSBAND IS SO CHEAP. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells kids Santa committed suicide.
I WAS SO WRINKLED I COULD SCREW MY HATS ON.
WE CALIFORNIANS are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.
BURT REYNOLDS ONCE ASKED ME OUT. I WAS IN HIS ROOM.
COMEDY IS TRAGEDY REVISITED.
NOTHING was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
SELF-PITY IS BETTER THAN NONE.
YOU CAN SAY THE NASTIEST THINGS about yourself without offending anyone.
STEPHEN LEVINE “Who Dies? Meetings at the Edge, year to Live, and Healing into Life and Death”. Ram Dass: “Stephen and I have been deep heart friends in the same soul pod for many incarnations. Many lives are enriched through his heart, his soul, and his words. As Stephen helped so many others deal with death, may his entry into the clear light of love be easy.” 1937-2016
OUR SUFFERING is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
HEALING is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
WHEN YOUR FEAR TOUCHES SOMEONE’S PAIN, it becomes pity. when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.
NOTHING IS MORE NATURAL THAN GRIEF, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It’s an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.
LETTING GO OF OUR SUFFERING is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way — in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.
HEALING COMES WHEN WE MEET OUR WOUNDED PLACES WITH COMPASSION.
NON-ATTACHMENT is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.
THE SADDEST part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
LOVE IS NOT WHAT WE BECOME BUT WHO WE ALREADY ARE.
OUR WORK IS TO KEEP OUR HEARTS OPEN IN HELL.
TO HEAL is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
GRIEF can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
IT IS TRUST in our vast ‘don’t know’ that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.
MEDITATION allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
GO TO THE TRUTH BEYOND THE MIND. LOVE IS THE BRIDGE.
THE only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
WE ARE SO NUMB we don’t even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.
OUR LIFE IS COMPOSED of events and states of mind. How we appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind.
MUCH THOUGHT has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there’s wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.
WHEN THE HEART acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.
OUR ADDICTION to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that come from confidence in our natural wisdom.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI 11954—-Producer “Amazing Spider-Man”
AS KIDS, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, “No. You shouldn’t be doing that.” and we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
THE QUALITY OF OUR THOUGHTS IS BORDERED BY OUR FACILITY WITH LANGUAGE.
I AM DELIRIOUS WITH JOY. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent.
Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.
FOR ME, there’s nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me . . . a woman who knows her own mind and isn’t afraid to speak it.
I DON’T START WRITING A script until I can see it all in my head, then it’s a matter of getting it down in white heat.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF