Related Quotes
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.
selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. Carol Shields
self investing juan
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
self pitfalls devotion
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. Agnes Martin
self unhappy what-you-love
Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating. Alan Sugar
selfish rose people
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. Alan Keyes
selfish description relation
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
self rivers mountain
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. Charlotte Bronte
self giving soul
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
selfish laughing soul
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
chinese delicate feeling float period pressured reasonable sensitive stop
We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things. Charles Schumer
chinese improve promises property proved
We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false. Alan Tonelson
chinese friendly government inveterate moment relations
The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,
chinese companies hands help jail knowing quite trying weapon western
We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities.
chinese combining developed ended forces forming friendship friends-or-friendship great hikes
We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company. Jack Ma
chinese circle emerges game goes human mythology rarely
Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end. Ashwin Sanghi
chinese nine tone
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. David Tang
chinese point taiwanese tend view
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint. Jimmy Wales
chinese shrimp torah
It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant. Jason Alexander