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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. Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
reality world way
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way. Carlos Castaneda
reality world description
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. Carlos Castaneda
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. C. S. Lewis
skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills issues judgement
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement Brian Eno
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills phones clerks
dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release. Jasmine Cresswell
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills ideas imagination
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas. Charlotte Bunch
skills territory needs
To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
way awareness force
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive. Carlos Castaneda
way like-you
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way. Carlos Castaneda
way human-nature dont-change
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all Carlos Castaneda
way looks spirituality
Things don't change, only the way you look at them. Carlos Castaneda
way environment has-beens
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. Carl Andre
way study dropping
I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. Agnes de Mille
way
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness. Agnes Martin
way born
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy. Agnes Martin
way sometimes innocent
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way. Agnes Varda