Encounters Quotes - Page 8

• What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Quality, Way, Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Duh, Want

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• Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

  Bill Johnson

  Divine, Theology, Satisfied

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• There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pain, Suffering, Way

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

  Michel Foucault

  Helping Others, Two, Identity

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.208, Routledge

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• Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Expression, Giving, Soul

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• Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

  Augustus Napier

  Children, Struggle, Identity

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• Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Nice

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.35, SPCK

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• There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Judging, People

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• Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

  Daniel Levitin

  Data, Important, Reliability

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• How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Sea

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• It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

  John Heider

  Issues, Mentor, Persons

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.63, Green Dragon Books

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• Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

  Willis Regier

  Book, Dust, Treasure

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creativity, Math, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In Russia whenever you encounter a minor official, he lets you know that he is above you and that you depend on him. It is reflected in the superpower mentality that nourishes the Kremlin. An empire always demands sacrifices from its people.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Sacrifice, Russia, People

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• Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Brilliant, Figs

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

  Gore Vidal

  Favors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Missing, Theology

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• Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

  John le Carre

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• Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.

  Francis George

  Law, Ideas, Christ

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Hate, Writing, My Family

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters.

  Dacia Maraini

  Men, Gains, Discouraged

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

  John Abbott

  Gun, Might, Failing

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