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• Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

  Ayya Khema

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Support Systems

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• I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Moving, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

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• You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven really trust you and rely upon you in the world. Oh my, I have had to wait for so many things!

  Marshall Vian Summers

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Rely Upon

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• The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Fire, Framed, Contemplation

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophy, Ideas, Religion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.378

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• The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled - frustration arises, failure arises, and you feel neglected, as if existence does not care for you. Drop expectations for the future. Remain open, remain available to whatsoever happens, but don't plan ahead. Don't make any psychological, fixed ideas about the future - that things should be like this - and much more suffering will disappear.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Frustration, Ideas

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• Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

  Laozi

  Mother, Father, Heart

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• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

  Rollo May

  Art, Creativity, Rivers

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero.

  Hugh W. Pinnock

  Sister, Brother, Children

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• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Vex, Mischief

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.58

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• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Believe, Successful

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

  Jacques Maritain

  Ocean, America, Sea

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• The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Struggle, Philosophical, Home

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.98, Oxford University Press

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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Expression, Land, Racism

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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• Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.

  Charles Babbage

  Government, Class, House

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

  Charles Babbage

  Machines, Aids, Guides

  Charles Babbage, Philip Morrison, Emily Morrison (1961). “Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

  Charles Hodge

  Teaching, Inward, Spirit

  CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.15

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• When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties.

  George Foreman

  Party, Offering, Ideas

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• Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

  Napoleon Hill

  Stars, Dreamer, World

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.32, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

  Heraclitus

  Opposites, Together, Sound

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• Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Simple, Two

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Children, Interesting

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Needs, Faults, Materialism

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Beauty, Sex

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

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