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reality people sun
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them. Carlos Fuentes
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. Carlos Castaneda
reality historical normal
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
reality deaf-and-blind world
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
reality world way
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
reality world description
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
reality media gossip
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies Carl Bernstein
reality definitions events
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. C. S. Lewis
reality morality pretending
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
afterlife judgment protect
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg
afterlife aiming aspiration beyond futility generates hope lose mindless paradise picked prospect sight taken
By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray
afterlife people over-you
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people. Bill Maher
afterlife soul gauges
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. Anton Chekhov
afterlife age get-better
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Bonnie Raitt
afterlife profound funny-graduation
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. Art Buchwald
afterlife die life
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow. Ali ibn Abi Talib
afterlife artists creative fame hall johnson led magic michael office powerful seventh year
Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency. Don Yaeger
afterlife cannot hit life looking perfect pounds rather
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' Drew Barrymore
religion christianity know-yourself
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion atheism knees
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. Susan B. Anthony
religion
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
religion stressed magnificence
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
religion said wells
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut