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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.
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.
secret disease pestilence
Charles Dickens In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
secret together needs
Alan Watts Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
secret wipe take-a-deep-breath
Alan Watts Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
secret easy carried-away
Alan Patricof The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.
secret dawn cry-the-beloved-country
Alan Paton But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
secret shortcuts substitutes
Al Oerter There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.
secret ingredients responsible
Akio Morita There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
secret experience together
David Hume We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
secretary
David Brooks It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.