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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.
fire liberty purpose
Charles Caleb Colton The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
Charles Caleb Colton In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
fire wish mastery
Charles Dickens And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
fire wish mastery
Charles Dickens All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
fire feelings words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
fire tree may
David Walker I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.
fire gadgets whiskey
Benedict Cumberbatch I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
fire answers speech
Beatrice Webb we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.
fire water important
Bear Grylls Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.
religion crime thousand
Charles Caleb Colton Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
religion whole department
Alan Watts Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
religion ordinary deities
Edward Gibbon Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
religion atheism might
Edward Gibbon The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
religion said wells
Kurt Vonnegut What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
religion baths doe
Billy Sunday They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
religion earth return
Bertrand Russell This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
religion battle faces
Bertrand Russell No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
religion causes world
Bertrand Russell If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...