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• I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

  Michael Frayn

  People, Interesting, Stories

  Michael Frayn (2015). “The Russian Interpreter”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.

  Robert Thurman

  Knowledge, Reality, Oneness

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014

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• Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

  Robert Thurman

  Teacher, Height, Insight

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• Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Grateful, Humble, Sleep

  "A Permeable Life: Poetry and Essays". Book by Carrie Newcomer, onbeing.org. March 17, 2014.

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• Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Beautiful, Jobs, People

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• If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Games, Way, Speak

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• When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

  Winston Graham

  Suffering, Levels

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• I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Clouds, Sight, Air

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• When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

  Brian Houston

  People, Praying, Happens

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• Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

  Christine Caine

  Love, Life, God

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jun 26, 2015

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• I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

  Bobbi Gibb

  Running, Boys, Ideas

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• Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Sacred, Celebrate

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

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• Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

  Jon Gordon

  Commitment, Successful, People

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• Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

  R. J. Palacio

  Thinking, Way, Reason

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

  Zeena Schreck

  Sex, Negative, May

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• It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

  Dewitt Jones

  Keys, Perspective, Solutions

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• Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

  Dewitt Jones

  Creativity, Looks, Ability

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• Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes. Trust in Him. Trust Him who knows all things. Trust Him who has all power. Trust Him whose love for you is perfect. Trust Him, who alone suffered, paid, and atoned for you sins, and for your weaknesses as well. Trust Him that He will make of you immeasurably more than what you will ever, ever, in all eternity make of yourself. He will create of you a masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create an ordinary man. He will create a God.

  Lawrence E. Corbridge

  Dream, Men, Perfect

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• All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

  Brian Perkins

  Fantasy, Truth Is, Extraordinary

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• Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Art, Creating

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• Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

  Mother Teresa

  Ordinary Extraordinary, Ordinary Things, Changing The World

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.325, Image

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• Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news.

  George Carlin

  Valentine, Thinking, Order

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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