O Quotes
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“Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans.”
Source: The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
“Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.”
“Once we know, we’re empowered.”
“Once we learn to stably regulate our attention, we can be fully present in our joy, compassion, and love; in turn, we can deny oxygen to our anger, anxiety, and self-cherishing. This is the first step towards lasting inner tranquility.”
Source: A Primer on Samatha Meditation
“Once we let external situation control our life, it turmoil our inner peace.”
“Once we let go of expectations, our mind walks free from that limited vision of possible experience and opens itself to all possible experience.”
Source: I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom
“Once we let go of our low self-esteem identity, the mind will have to start all over again, collecting new information about us and building a new identity.”
Source: Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help
“Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.”
“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Once we lose touch of our human curiosity, it becomes very difficult to ever build back an appreciation for the fact we actually know very little”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“Once we made up our minds, humans could do nothing to stop us.”
Source: The Last Human
“Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.”
“Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.”
Source: The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World
“Once we merge with the Core
Trusting the efficiency
Of our Soul’s intent
The Flow becomes
The only possible direction”
Source: Art of 4 Elements
“Once we name something, you said, we can never see it the same way again. All that is unnameable falls away, gets lost, is murdered. You called this the cookie-cutter function of our minds. You said that you knew this not from shunning language but from immersion in it, on the screen, in conversation, onstage, on the page.”
Source: The Argonauts
“Once we no longer feel the need to fight our negative beliefs or our past, we have more energy to put towards creating the outcome that we do want to see. We shift from survival and fear to growth and thriving.”
“Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.”
Source: Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.”
“Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.”
“Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.”
“Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...”
“Once we push through the curtain of fear, we find our dreams on the other side.”
Source: 20/20 Vision Dreams
“Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.”
“Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.”
“Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives) and blameless wrongdoing (such as when you don't push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives), then utilitarianism all of a sudden appears to give the right answers.”
“Once we realize how small we are in relation to everything else but stand tall in our wisdom and potency, we will grow and shine evermore.”
“Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”
Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
“Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage, we would try to find a way of living together peacefully and with mutual benefit. The sooner we understand that in a globalized world the diasporic nature of cohabitation is never likely to end, that it will always be with us, I believe such modus vivendi will be found.”
“Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.”
“Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.”
“Once we recognize our inescapable embeddedness in the living, organic ecosystem and our mutual interdependence with all other coexisting species, our sense of separate identity, so strenuously acquired and desperately maintained, recedes more into the background. Instead, the relationships, whether balanced or imbalanced, take the foreground and become the focus of concern. This is the perceptual basis for a new and ancient point of view: it is holistic and inclusive and inevitably accompanied by a sense of wonder and reverence.”
Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
“Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything”
Source: Warm Wisdom from Catherine Marshall
“Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.”
Source: What It Is Like To Go To War
“Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticed eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.”
“Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgement better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.”
“Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions , we cannot but wonder why such a torture has been inflicted on the child. How could a being who has been aggressed in this way, while totally helpless, develop into a relaxed, loving, trusting person? Indeed, he will always never be able to trust anyone in life. He will always be on the defensive, unable to open up to others and to life.”
“Once we repossess a sense of our own holiness, we will recover the sense of the holiness of the world... Only in this way will we once again become aware that our destiny and the destiny of nature are one and the same.”
Source: Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology
“Once we resolve, with mutual respect, to to solve the problems we face, as human beings and as a planet, we can begin to actually solve them on a global scale.”
Source: What Faith Has Taught Me: Spiritual Insights
“Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.”
“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”
“Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.”
“Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.”
“Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.”
Source: Mortal Questions : Canto
“Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us. And this, in turn, will enable our obedience far more than sheer grunt effort.”
“Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.”