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wall loneliness men
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor. Carlos Castaneda
wall space infinity
Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
wall warrior winning
Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.
wall warrior men
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
wall broken people
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after. C. S. Lewis
wall hands government
The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have. Agnes Macphail
wall gun men
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Aaron Sorkin
wall character storytelling
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
wall character writing
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. Charlotte Bronte
past people debt
The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending. Carol Roth
past mexican black
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo. Carlos Fuentes
past novelty variation
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
past matter happened
Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now. Carl Crawford
past years meditation
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. Carl Friedrich Gauss
past frozen flow
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Agnes Repplier
past foolish subtle
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
past racism voter-fraud
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past. Aasif Mandvi
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.
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
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.
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.