Shai Quotes

The rule: when energy, 'negative' as it may be, moves without resistance, it easily sublimates and becomes raw energy of power and presence; resistance to it makes it freeze in its current state. For this reason, morality not only does not help our sexuality develop but also forces it to stay as it is. ~ Shai Tubali

Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire. ~ Shai Tubali

We are all doing the best we can, within the limitations of our own inherent pattern. ~ Shai Tubali

To keep it simple, why did God choose me? Because He felt like it! ~ Shai Linne

Each and every component of our being – from our consciousness as a whole to our least of thoughts, emotions and sensations – yearns for one and only state: an ever-growing expansion, a complete shattering of the sense of contraction and limitation, a total liberation from the confined structure of distinct barriers and sidewalls. ~ Shai Tubali

Vulnerability means fearlessly keeping the door to your heart open. A tender heart that does not try to protect itself and remains open to experience, accepting, loving, and forgiving under all circumstances, is an unbreakable heart. ~ Shai Tubali

It is the brain's full and absolute responsibility to evolve, nobody will do it for it, and grace and salvation do not exist. The brain must take its place as the source of grace and learn to operate itself properly. In fact, its transformation will begin when it will bear all responsibility alone. ~ Shai Tubali

Emotions cannot evolve through intellectual comprehension; there must be direct access to them, access that allows them to go through a transformation from the plane in which they actually exist. ~ Shai Tubali

Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature. ~ Shai Tubali

People", Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elements, bend nature to our wills. It make us feel as if we're in control. Except in doing so, we merely replace one influence with another. Instead of the wind affecting us, it is a wall. A man-made wall. The fingers of man's influence are all about, touching everything. Man-made rugs, man-made food. Every single thing in the city that we touch, see, feel, experience comes as the result of some person's influence. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone. ~ Brandon Sanderson

When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do. ~ Shai Agassi

The brain's transmutation begins when consciousness understands that it made everything up – morality, good and bad, redemption and the truth. With this understanding, it realizes that now it can start anew. ~ Shai Tubali

We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself. ~ Shai Tubali

Emperor's Soul pg 123:
Attempts to Forge the window to a better version of itself had repeatedly failed; each time, after five minutes or so, the window had reverted to its cracked, gap-sided self.
Then Shai had found a bit of colored glass rammed into one side of the frame. The window, she realized, had once been a stained glass piece, like many in the palace. It had been broken, and whatever had shattered the window had also bent the frame, producing those gaps that let in the frigid breeze.
Rather than repairing it as it had been meant to be, someone had put ordinary glass into the window and left it to crack. A stamp from Shai in the bottom right corner had stored the window, rewriting its history so that a caring master craftsman had discovered the fallen window and remade it. That seal had taken immediately. Even after ll this time, the window had seen itself as something beautiful. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases ~ Shai Linne

It is true that we need love - yet not so much to
receive it as much more to give it; to know for sure we have it inside us in abundance; to sense it as a part of ourselves. ~ Shai Tubali

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do. ~ Shai Agassi

If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the Son be universal? That would put the persons of the Trinity completely at odds with one another-but the triune God is completely unified. ~ Shai Linne

That was always their mistake - assuming they knew why Shai did what she did. ~ Brandon Sanderson

We are the ripples of the Big Bang in human form. ~ Shai Tubali

Full moon calls thee
Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round
Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground. ~ Frank Herbert

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards. ~ Shai Agassi

Our heart has no quarrel with our innate limitations and shortcomings. It clearly knows that all human weaknesses, difficulties, and obstacles must be there as a necessary balance
for the divine powers in us and as a vital means for evolution and learning. ~ Shai Tubali