Incarnation Quotes - Page 7

• People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.

  Tzvetan Todorov

  Believe, Views, People

  "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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• The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I!

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Light, Rose

  "Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways". TV Series, June 18, 2005.

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• Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Jesus, Reality

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• I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.

  Daniel Quinn

  Spiritual, Archery, Yellow

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Loss

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• Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

  Stephen Levine

  Believe, Ideas, Afterlife

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.152, Harmony

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• You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

  Chief White Eagle

  Home, Years, Religion

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• I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Memories, Artist

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Imperfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

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• The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Proof

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.440, Routledge

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• You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are living the gift of a human incarnation. My hope is that you will embrace these truths and your birthright to live a life abundant in love, joy, and celebration.

  David Simon

  Beautiful, Joy, Quality

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• Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

  Richard Rohr

  Biblical, Ideas, Achievement

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• The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.

  Ernest Holmes

  God, People, Body

  Ernest Holmes, Michael Beckwith (2010). “How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library”, p.131, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!

  Brent Weeks

  Real, Kind, Bigs

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Cutting, Soul, Progress

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• Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.

  Naomi Klein

  Iraq, Russia, Years

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.455, Macmillan

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• For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Law, Soul, Church

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• A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

  Milan Kundera

  Expression, Creating, Individuality

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• You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Laughing, Principles, May

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• By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Virtue, Creation, Stills

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.

  Paul Monette

  Stupid, Dirty, Book

  Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Art, Important, Surface

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• The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.

  Annie Besant

  Twilight, Reality, Body

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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