Happenings Quotes - Page 11

• Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it's there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.

  Brandon Bays

  Letting Go, Healing, Acceptance

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• And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

  Sonia Braga

  Mother, Play, Getting Older

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• It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

  James Blunt

  Song, Stupid, Taken

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• For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

  Alexander Fleming

  Fall, Science, Fog

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• Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  "Bricks to Babel". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

  Lucy Powell

  Moving, Thinking, Events

  "Economic bail-out aims to restore confidence for small firms and savers" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

  Merle Haggard

  Missing You, Music Is, Melody

  FaceBook post by Merle Haggard from Nov 04, 2011

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• We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Order, Addiction, Contentment

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.149, Anchor

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• Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Christian, War, People

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• It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.

  Terence McKenna

  Order, Mushrooms, Space

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• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Shadow, Groups

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• One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

  Wole Soyinka

  Moving, Movement, Mass

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• There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

  Irvine Welsh

  Edinburgh, Literature, London

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• We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Nice, People, Friendly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Eye, Shoes

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• What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Thinking, Meditation, Want

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.37, Harmony

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• Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Karma, Men, Self

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.

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• I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

  Enya

  Different, Reactions, Huge

  "The Invisible Star". The Times Magazine Interview with Nigel Williamson, December 10, 2005.

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• Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Decision, Made, Feels

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• No matter where you are in life, no matter what you’ve contributed to creating, no matter what’s happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did

  Louise Hay

  Creating, Understanding, Matter

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.26, Hay House, Inc

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• Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Giving, Directors, Stories

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

  J. L. Carr

  Memories, Lying, Writing

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• Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

  Che Guevara

  Ideas, World, Youth

  "On Revolutionary Medicine". Speech delivered to the Cuban Militia, www.marxists.org. August 19, 1960.

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• We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.59, The Golden Sufi Center

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