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opposites play effort
Alan Watts But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.
opposites spirituality holy
Alan Watts A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
opposites jumping risk
Akshay Kumar I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
opposites errors obedience
Aiden Wilson Tozer To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.
opposites fabulous feels
Chita Rivera You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
opposites cities london
China Mieville A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
opposites perspective people
Eddie Huang People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.
opposites play one-day
Deepika Padukone I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.
long wit long-time
Charles Dickens Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
long trials hardship
Charles Stanley You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
long might serving-god
Charles Spurgeon I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.
long people giving
Charles Spurgeon I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
long eternity endless
Charles Spurgeon Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
long doe christ
Charles Spurgeon He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.
long care doe
Charles Spurgeon Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
long effort mind
Alan Watts Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.
long enlightenment standards
Alan Watts Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
people littles controversy
Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
people waiting lord
Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.