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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.
firsts sun start-the-day
Charles Dickens The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
firsts profession
Charles Caleb Colton A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
firsts three novel
Charles Stross I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
firsts christ salvation
Charles Spurgeon The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
firsts done christ
Charles Spurgeon Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
firsts chaos authority
Alan Moore Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
firsts film made
Al Pacino I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
firsts shy language
Al Pacino My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
firsts spurs worship
Aiden Wilson Tozer We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
film certain made
Alan Rickman Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
film made love-films
Alan Moore I love films that are made with almost no budget.
film embarrassment
Alan Bennett My films are about embarrassment.
film driven made
Alain Resnais I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
film reason reactions
Alain Resnais For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
film appeals relatability
Akira Kurosawa The great appeal of film is its relatability.
film-directing common problem
Akira Kurosawa Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
film polite
Benedict Cumberbatch I'd love to meet Julian [Assange], and time permitting, and his will permitting, I'm sure it will happen at some point. Even though he's been very critical of the film [The Fifth Estate], he's been very polite about me and my work, and I feel the same way about him.
films grab particular women
Lisa Cholodenko I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.