Richelle Mead Quotes

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

You are the world and the world is you.

Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow.

Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.