Encounters Quotes - Page 29

• Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

  Eudora Welty

  Reading, Heart, Writing

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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• I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Community, Culture

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• Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon

  Fall, Window Panes, Two

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• If some confectioners were willing
  To let the shape announce the filling,
  We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
  Bitten into and returned to the box.

  Ogden Nash

  Chocolate, Shapes, Assorted

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Self, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Neville Goddard Collection”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Ocean, Adversity

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• You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

  Richard Blackaby

  Positive, May, Realizing

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• This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Quality, Body, Faults

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• At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Ideas, Breakfast, Tables

  "Five minutes with Mark Z Danielewski". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2000.

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• Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

  Louis C. K.

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

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• Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Society, Research

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Sometimes, Forgotten

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

  Alain de Botton

  Men, Dust, Sublime

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Religion, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI (1996). “Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today”, p.81, Ignatius Press

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• No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Drug, Mouths, General Public

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• What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Entering, Revelations

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.219, eBookIt.com

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• ‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Events, Connections

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 30, 2011

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• You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.

  Richard Rohr

  Strong, Moving, Perspective

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• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Objectivity, Growth, Population

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

  Moby

  Morning, Drinking, Taken

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, White, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Character, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.

  Denis Hayes

  Couple, Commitment, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

  William Kristol

  Loyalty, Meaningful, Yuppies

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• According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

  Deepak Chopra

  Faith, Meaningful, Destiny

  "Stop Worrying, Start Living: A Guide for the Spiritual Worrier/Warrior". Book by Caroline Ravenall, 2012.

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