Midst Quotes - Page 7

Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.

John de Ruiter

Unseen, Firsts, Integrating

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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Heart, World, Fixing

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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

Mahatma Gandhi

Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

Richard Bach

Knowing, Games, Play

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In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Believe, Inspiration, Cynical

"How to believe in yourself - even if you sometimes don't" by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2012.

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Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

Martin Heidegger

Self, World, Who We Are

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It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

Ovid

Sight, Sea, Land

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Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Prayer, Lucky, Enough

Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.178, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

Ricky Williams

Greatness, Intensity, Willingness

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Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

Mike Yaconelli

Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

Swami Satchidananda

Serenity, Calamity, Serene

Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

Savitri Devi

Beautiful, People, India

Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

Lysa TerKeurst

Blessing, Burdens Of Life, Today

Twitter post from Dec 06, 2016

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Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude, Powerful, Struggle

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Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Thinking, Two, Phrases

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.70, Kodansha International

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That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

Robert A. M. Stern

Nfl, Giants, Stories

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"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

Swami Vivekananda

Dwelling, Water, Fool

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3603, Manonmani Publishers

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Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

Debbie Allen

Beautiful, Block, Independent

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The ad industry isn't struggling for a new set of principles or abandoning the ones that made it great from the start. It's simply in the midst of a business cycle. I don't think it's more profound than that. And despite the economic downturn, I'm having more fun today than at any other moment in my 30-year advertising career. The game is more interesting and more relevant than ever.

Rochelle B Lazarus

Fun, Struggle, Thinking

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Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

Andrew Jackson

Men, Order, Remembrance

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The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspiration, Practice, Silence

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

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God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

Francis Chan

Mind, World, Impossible

Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.478, David C Cook

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Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Mother, Running, Home

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Bernard Baruch

War, Shooting, Cold

Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.

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