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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.
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The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic. Laughlin McDonald
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The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. Theodor Svedberg
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge. Lev Vygotsky
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I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious. Louise Bourgeois
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The positive side of that is that TV shows and movies can really help people see the connection between what might be an abstract Washington policy issue and real people's lives, even though it's fictional real people,
abstract art looks people supposed
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. Berthold Auerbach
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
abstract work
I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work. Twyla Tharp
existence enjoyed
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! Charlotte Bronte
existence indicate sign
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. Lucy Lawless
existence hits reason
This really hits hard. Our reason for existence is to find people.
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Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement. Jane Hirshfield
existence
So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome. Kurt Braunohler
existence uses
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. J. Paul Getty
existence sensations knows
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know. Ayn Rand
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
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If one were to strip a person of the layers of outward masks and illusions and place them only in their own skin they would be overwhelmed with fear of the unknown. Know thyself and feed upon it's very existence, everything that needs to be known is within.