Retreat Quotes - Page 10

• The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fear, People, Confusion

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  Imelda Staunton

  Karma, Yoga, Believe

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• Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

  Romain Rolland

  Air, Space, Elements

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• What can my enemies do to me?
  I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
  If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
  Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
  To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
  And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Religious

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• Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Trying, Quality, World

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Reading, Meditation, Session

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a training center for nuns. I agreed because I think it's really very important for the Western Sangha. I don't know how I'm going to help, but it's important.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Training, Important

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Thinking, Ideas, Goes On

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Space, Torn Apart, Orbit

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

  Susan Sontag

  Political Opinions, Might, Way

  Source: ctheory.net

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• When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes because it is an unsafe situation. You don't know what you are dealing with. What you see is not what you are going to get. And that is when people start withdrawing.

  Parker J. Palmer

  People, Foxholes, Gaps

  Source: www.youthworker.com

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• I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.

  Tim Gunn

  School, Tired, Years

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin,, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.

  Walter Mikac

  Communication, Safety Zone, Media

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• Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Feels

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I have a place in New England. It's in the middle of nowhere, like horror movie style - Stephen King-ville. It's a good kind of retreat for me to regroup my thoughts and work. I split time: 50 percent there, 50 percent in New York

  Taylor Momsen

  Kings, New York, Style

  Source: people.com

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• The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Practice, People, Listening

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Interesting, Meditation, Silence

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did things like, we'd all go over to the Fort Belvedere in Florence and take that thing over. Because it's up for grabs, you can rent it. And then have New Age meetings and all that kind of stuff. [Buckminster] Fuller loved to go there.

  Paul Laffoley

  Team, Good Friend, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and self-empowerment seminars. There's a hope for a quick fix - if only we have the money and right drugs for it.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Party, Yoga, Self

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cancer, Heart, Healing

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  "Matt Lauer Urges Bush to Trash Trump on Political Division, Media Attacks" by Kyle Drennen, www.newsbusters.org. February 27, 2017.

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• It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.

  Eric Holder

  Home, Self, Law

  "Holder speaks out against 'Stand Your Ground' laws after Zimmerman verdict" by Pete Williams and Tracy Connor, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2013.

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• While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Nerves

  Source: therumpus.net

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