Encounters Quotes - Page 39

• REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reflection, Views, Yesterday

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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• There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

  Mother Teresa

  Powerful, Healing, Light

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• During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.

  Michael Meade

  Soul, Trying, Blossoming

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• Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prayer, Flower, Giving

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.28, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Native American, Giving, Fiction

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• As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Self

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.31, Penguin

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• The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Secret, Important

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• Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Doe, May

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• When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Creativity, Ordinary, Way

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• When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Suffering, Important

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• The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, World, Life Is

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Errors, Technique

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Strong, Difficult Situations, Wind

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• Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

  Mike Donehey

  Belief, Christianity, Persons

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• Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Reading, Practice

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 20, 2016

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• It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

  François Lelord

  Adventure, Successful, Thinking

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books

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• We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.

  Rob Kall

  Spiritual, Teacher, Book

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• I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.

  James Nares

  Art, Home, Museums

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• In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Boys, Law, Giving

  Abraham Kaplan (2017). “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science”, p.56, Routledge

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• I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Night, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fall, Taken, People

  "Illuminations". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1950.

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• To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Expectations, Sound

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Sleep, Men, Worst Enemy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 344, 1895.

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• You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.

  Bill Mollison

  Dog, Real, Nails

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Military, Responsibility, Action

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 49), 2002.

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