Dispelling Quotes

• I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Fear, School

  Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

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• According
  to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the
  development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the
  happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being.
  Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to
  dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever
  obstacles we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Insecurity

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• Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

  Hillary Carlip

  Writing, Light, Shining

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• Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Song, Pain, Spring

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sex, Expectations, Mysterious

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  People, Looks, Mystery

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• It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Two, Mind

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• What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Happiness, Joy, Storm

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• Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.

  James Hollis

  Spiritual, Motivation, Imagination

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• When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.

  Karl Popper

  Past, Reality, Situations In Life

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• To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.

  Jose Maria Peman

  Heart, Wine, Giving

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• The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.

  Arch Ward

  Friendship, New Year, Dream

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• Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Twilight, Science, Shadow

  George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy”, p.84

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• Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Real, Ignorance, Men

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• Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Truth, Fog, Torches

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• It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

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• You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Ignorance, Long, Community

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “The Spinoza Problem: A Novel”, p.84, Basic Books

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• Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Darkness

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2009). “Becoming Enlightened”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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