Near Quotes

“Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.”

“I am so glad that God miraculously save my life at near-death.”

“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself”

“I’m helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are “near enemies” to every great virtue—reactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subtly take us down an ineffectual path. Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can’t possibly make a difference. The wise Buddhist anthropologist and teacher Roshi Joan Halifax calls this a “pathological empathy” of our age. In the face of magnitudes of pain in the world that come to us in pictures immediate and raw, many of us care too much and see no evident place for our care to go. But compassion goes about finding the work that can be done. Love can’t help but stay present”

“When you are here, God is near.”

“There were two ways of looking at it: imagining that it was far away and big, in the first place; in the second, that it was small and near. But at any rate, a stupid, hard, brown mountain. How she hated nature sometimes.”

“The facts are near to deception!”

“Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.”

“We've heard that you don't need a near-death experience to see Guardians. Just be more wide awake when you dream.”