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• Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Reality, Different

  "Turning Obstacles into Opportunities" by André Borschberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Investing, Problem

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

  Mike Holder

  Golf, Player, Competition

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• Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Mother, Prayer, Real

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• Angels, please help me remember to direct blessings and prayers to everyone I meet today. Please send extra healing energy through me to all my relationships. I ask that each encounter I have bring gifts to everyone involved.

  Doreen Virtue

  Prayer, Healing, Angel

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 31, 2012

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• Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Looks, Christianity, Look Up

  "Erasmus of Rotterdam". Book by Stefan Zweig translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, 1934.

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• How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hands, Challenges, Looks

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 04, 2017

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• In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

  Brennan Manning

  Life, Giving, Words Of Wisdom

  Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.101, Tyndale House

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• There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Powerful, Fall, Emotional

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• A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Political, Working Together, Goes On

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• ...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Meaningful, Brain, Mind

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.72, Guilford Publications

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• Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

  Reg Revans

  Leadership, Changed

  Reg Revans (2012). “ABC of Action Learning”, p.76, Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

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• It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parent, Sensitive

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.216, Orient Blackswan

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• Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Grief, Creativity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• You cannot, and will not, encounter
  a circumstance, or a single moment,
  that does not serve directly and immediately
  the need of your soul to heal.

  Gary Zukav

  Single Mom, Soul, Doe

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 19, 2014

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• Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

  David Markson

  Thinking, Years, Paris

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• People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.
  None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sex, Pain, Writing

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• Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place.  The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false self and its demons.  No, it is precisely in the midst of this struggle that our Lord comes to us and says, as he said to the old man in the story: ‘As soon as you turned to me again, you see I was beside you.’

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.19, HarperCollins

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• Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Engagement, World, Existential

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

  Brian Weiss

  Destiny, People, Soul

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• I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

  Marc Riboud

  Surprise, Should, Wanted

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• You are so part of the world
  that your slightest action contributes to its reality.
  Your breath changes the atmosphere.
  Your encounters with others
  alter the fabrics of their lives,
  and the lives of those
  who come in contact with them.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Atmosphere, Fabric

  Jane Roberts (1981). “The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having one’s life changed forever by a chance encounter.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Life Changing, Forever, Mind

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry—and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow’s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.

  Marilyn Strathern

  Fashion, Block, Philosophy

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