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• The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Past, Self

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

  Doreen Virtue

  Joy, Ego, Positive Energy

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2016

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

  Moss Hart

  Money, May, Moral

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• Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Keys, Simplicity, Balance

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• Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Focus, Sometimes, Should

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• The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Echoes, Choices, Males

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• Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

  John Ortberg

  Self, Boredom, Joy

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

  George Eliot

  Book, Order, Names

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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• To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Years, Justice

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Atavism of Social Justice (ch. 5), 1978.

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• You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

  Habib Bourguiba

  Liberty, Essentials, Serious

  "TUNISIA: No Time for Democracy". content.time.com. September 29, 1958.

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• Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wise, Fall, Intelligent

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Political, Elements, France

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.62, Basic Books

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• One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Taken, Heart

  "Generation NeXt Parenting: A Savvy Parent's Guide to Getting it Right". Book by Tricia Goyer, 2010.

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• In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Risk, Aversion

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• I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Way, Rama

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• We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.

  Lynn Steen

  Believe, School, Intellectual

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• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Reality, Political, Drug

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• Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

  Ana Monnar

  Worry, Too Much, Sometimes

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Knights, Together, Events

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• There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

  Woody Allen

  Names, Nuance, Film

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Political, Awareness, Process

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

  Richard Crossman

  Europe, Alive, Palestine

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• The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

  Jerry Bridges

  Lying, Believe, Biblical

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• Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Reelection, Politician

  "Dr. Cornel West’s Prognosis for the Country’s Prospects". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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