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• Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

  Sanford Meisner

  Broken, Acting, Plates

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• The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Moving, Yoga

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• It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Worship, Pursuit

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• Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Strong, Fall

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 18, 1843.

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• Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

  Northrop Frye

  Understanding, Intellectual, Atheism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Intellectual, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Mind, Vision

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• I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Vision, Awe

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• If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Names, Vision

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• If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.

  Marva Dawn

  Religious, Passion, Community

  Marva J. Dawn (1999). “A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have no resources of our own. We are as impoverished in worship times as a baby unable to provide its own bottle at feeding time. God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

  Judson Cornwall

  Baby, Children, Inspiration

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• One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Country

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• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Eye, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 20), 1895.

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• The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

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• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Reality, Order

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• The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Fleeting, Moments

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• Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Birthday, Thank You, Mother Daughter

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• What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?

  George Wigram

  Long, Giving, Wealth

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• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

  John Ruskin

  Wealth, Certain, Well Being

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works”

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• The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Wealth, Rich

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

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• Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Success, Spiritual, Wall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

  John Calvin

  Eye, Order, Giving

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• The ocean is an object of no small terror.

  Edmund Burke

  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Compassion, Fire, Feet

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