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Roland Merullo QUOTES

Roland Merullo QUOTES

1 " What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

2 " I miss women,” he went on. “I miss that kind of intimacy. But I think whatever people do; they do in search of pleasure. Or trying to get rid of pain or fear, which is the same thing, basically. Everything, everything is really about that. Everything is about bringing your mind to a place where it’s at peace "

― Roland Merullo , A Little Love Story

3 " There's about six original people in the world. The rest of everybody else are copycats. When it comes to religion and politics, ninety percent of people do what their parents did and think they made up their minds for themselves. They watch the news to see what the latest trends are. "

― Roland Merullo , American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

4 " ...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there. "

― Roland Merullo , The Delight of Being Ordinary

5 " With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

6 " Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

7 " You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

8 " I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be. "

― Roland Merullo , A Little Love Story

9 " Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth. "

― Roland Merullo , The Delight of Being Ordinary

10 " Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. —James Baldwin "

― Roland Merullo , Dinner with Buddha

11 " Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of
Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.

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― Roland Merullo , A Little Love Story

12 " If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

13 " Isn't mockery the province of the insecure? "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

14 " I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious, the poor, and the abused from so many other nations, the ability we seem to have to be noble and heroic at the same time as we are being arrogant and stupid. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

15 " You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next all the time. You have to stop and do nothing for a little while every day. "

― Roland Merullo , The Talk-Funny Girl

16 " You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes people go back to people they shouldn't ever go back to. "

― Roland Merullo

17 " if Christ’s message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

18 " Anger is like hands over your eyes when another person is trying to show you. "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

19 " His eyes were more intense, the gaze more intimate. He put just the last inch or so of the fingers of both hands on the table to either side of his plate and said, “Love makes them run. That is not my lineage, my idea. That is a fact just like when water gets cold it ices. Like that. Some people cannot see this is a fact, but this is. They are blind in different ways but this is a fact: Love makes the atoms go where they go and stick where they stick. Everybody when they see a baby, a small boy or girl, they smile? Why? Because inside themself they know this fact. They know love made this baby, this boy, this girl. They feel this natural rising up of love in themself. Okay, yes? Before, I said to you about God’s music that is playing all the time, for everyone. God’s music is this love. And this love that runs our world, sometimes it means that there is help coming from that love, from that . . . source you would "

― Roland Merullo , Breakfast with Buddha

20 " We see our troubles through the filter of our own imperfection... "

― Roland Merullo , Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth