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• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, People, World

  "Bad Memories? Eckhart Tolle’s Advice on How to Deal". “Super Soul Sunday“ with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attention, Alertness, Moments

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• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Real, Believe

  "Bad Memories? Eckhart Tolle’s Advice on How to Deal". “Super Soul Sunday“ with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

  Pico Iyer

  Loyalty, Distance, Mean

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

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• [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

  William H. Gass

  Real, Self, Firsts

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Order, Mad

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• People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Simple, Hard Times

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• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Community, Important, Weakness

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• What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tempest, Showers

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Evil, Guilt

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Penguin

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• Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Deeds, Shields

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.567, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

  David Hume

  Men, Selfishness, Degrees

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.415, Courier Corporation

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• From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hatred, Delight, Contrary

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.20

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• To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Creator God, Needs, Sovereign

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• you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  People, Example, Cinema

  Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (1994). “Women as Lovers”, p.57, Profile Books

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• I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

  Darren Shan

  Opportunity, Hands, Want

  Darren Shan (2007). “Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan”

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• The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Meaningful, Ties, Goal

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• And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Intuition, Principles

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

  Jack Kornfield

  Individuality, Void, Emptiness

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• And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Blood, Waiting

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• Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

  Isaac Newton

  Order, World, Orbs

  'Opticks' (1730 ed.) bk. 3, pt. 1, qu. 28

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• It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Children, Distance

  "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary". www.prx.org.

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• But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mistake, Fall, Heart

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