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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.
sing
We want 'em to sing with us. We want 'em to sing out. Sharon Scott
singing maps music-is
Folk Music is the map of singing. Alan Lomax
single lonely loneliness
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. Charlotte Bronte
sin shock sophistication
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. Charlie Chaplin
sin stills non-conformist
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
sincere substitutes ardent
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. Charles Dickens
sin shows sinner
We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins. Charles Spurgeon
sin found casts
He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.
since
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck
contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
contempt heard held people president
Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
contempt economic environmental good interests prevail science sign ultimately
When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man. Pope John
contempt word writer wrote
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
contempt department job learned running saw students worst younger
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
contempt control feeling hatred neither quite within
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
contempt destroy devout except held jews others people save sayings showing wished
There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished Robert Ingersoll
contempt father grew opinions speech
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer