Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Shut off the poisonous inflow; purify what is here.

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.

Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.