Encounters Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.

  Ilchi Lee

  Zero, Spring, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jun 07, 2014

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• See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Jesus, Doors, Life Is

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• If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Thinking, Technique, Way

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into unconsciousness at the outset of each encounter and consciously remembered hearing only an initial word or two from the entity, I awakened on the dawn after the second visit with the ideas for The Divine Fire bubbling in my brain.

  Brad Steiger

  Spiritual, Book, Inspiration

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• Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Sacred, Divine, Reverence

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• There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.

  Casper Smart

  Meetings

  "Casper Smart Speaks Out Against Claims From Second Transgender Model" by Allison Takeda, www.usmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

  Henry Blackaby

  Jesus, Events, Way

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• Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.

  Jim Sinclair

  Children, Color, Autism

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• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Book, Men

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