O Quotes
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“Once we see the world as it really is, that we live in an open prison, then it is natural to expect that it is run like all prisons by gangs and mafia”
“Once we see the world for what it is, we see that it is nothing but dhikr Allâh—a reminder of God, a mention of God, a remembrance of God. Our response to the world can only be to follow its lead—to mention and to remember God. “Everything is accursed,” says the hadîth, “except dhikr Allâh.” But everything is dhikr Allâh, so nothing is accursed. The alchemy of dhikr transmutes the accursed into the blessed. The place of that dhikr, where God becomes truly present and man becomes truly blessed, is the heart. – William C. Chittick (On the Cosmology of Dhikr, p. 63)”
Source: Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
“Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.”
“Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.”
“Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.”
“Once we start the meditation process, self-consciousness to universal consciousness is achieved only when we reach the level of Truth consciousness.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.”
“Once we start to work with Feminine power we begin to see that it is not our minds that are in control of this power – it ebbs and flows with the movements of the planets, the procession of the seasons, the moons and tides, our own internal cycles of menstruality, anniversaries, the events around us. All these and more impact our experience and expressions of power. We learn to become aware of these various patterns and their impact on us and work more consciously with rather than against or in spite of them. We learn that they are all part of the same process. We open towards the energy, rather than shut down to it. We learn to trust the flow.”
Source: Burning Woman
“Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.”
“Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.”
Source: Love Heals Everything
“Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.”
Source: Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer
“Once we stop “searching” for joyful feelings in people and things, no matter what polarity the external world brings us (positive or negative), we can still be aware of the inner peace that resides in our consciousness.”
Source: Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace
“Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.”
“Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.”
“Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.”
Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.”
“Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.”
“Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.”
Source: Hidden mind of freedom
“Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.”
“Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.”
Source: Uglies
“Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.”
“Once we understand symbols we can better understand what it means to be human; we are creatures made in the image of God …we are indeed three dimensional beings in time and space of the Trinity.”
Source: How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books
“Once we understand that all human values are the result of fictions and myths,we don’t consider them sacrosanct. we are then able to question many beliefs that are believed to be irrefutable. we then move from the darkness of ignorance to the light of wisdom.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.”
Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
“Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.”
“Once we’ve become Gods,
And Superheroes,
and Spidermen(ed) through the web of potential,
what will be next?”
“Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts.”
Source: Tilda Is Visible
“Once we’ve met our basic needs—safety, security, sustenance, and shelter—those same emotional elements, not material wealth, determine our level of fulfillment, or, as some may refer to it, our personal success. These parallel truths—that amazing achievement and lasting fulfillment for both individuals and organizations come from understanding and harnessing those emotional elements—are critical to flourishing in our new age, the Age of Ideas.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Once we were all the same, you know? Now they say I can never know what their problems are. Because I am rich. Somehow I am not allowed to have problems. Or they are strange around me, like I am somehow different person. Like the good things in my life are an insult to others.”
Source: Still Me
“Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"”
“Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.”
“Once we were in love,
So I know it's true, the saying:
True love never ends
For as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more
Now that we are friends”
“Once we were inside the walls of Rahway Prison the mood changed. We were patted down for weapons and given a tour. They showed us how to make improvised weapons that people would hide in their ass. The guards pointed out the young guys who had become someone’s bitch.”
Excerpt From: Life of a Bastard Vol. 1 By Damien Black”
Source: Life of a Bastard
“Once we were on the road, I glanced at my passenger. “If you’ve got any ideas about how I can get this shit storm cleared up, I’m all ears.”
Tank snorted, sneezed, and lay down on the bench seat, plopping his head on my leg. I rested my hand on his back, eyes glued to the winding two-lane highway. “Yeah, I don’t have a goddamn clue either.”
Source: Ice Moon
“Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing and the camera work, and she was working more with the actors. Marjane [Satrapi] and I don't stop speaking once we're on the set. We continue to talk. We define what our roles are going to be on set, because to have a snake with two heads is silly.”
“Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. “Grandmère!” I yelled.
“What’d you say to them? What’d you say to convince them to let me go?”
But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, “I have my ways.”
Boy, did I ever not hate her then.”
Source: The Princess Diaries
“Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.”
“Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.”
“Once we were young, now we are adult.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.”
“Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.”
“Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend”
“Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.”
“Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.”
“Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.”
“Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.”
“Once...
Well, not once,
not at all once.
Many many many many times,
there was a person who worked hard,
a person who tried to work hard,
and tried to do their best,
and tried to do well by their family,
and tried to be good, and tried to do better.
Many many times they tried this.
And so.
The person became who they always were--
who we all always are--
A Person Trying.
So they all tried and they tried and they looked around at the mountains of effort
that they had built with their trying
at the piles of half-built bests
at the heaps of family
at the hills of good enough hills and better next time,
and as they looked around,
as they took in the view,
they saw what they had done to make the life
that they had lived.
And they looked to the left and saw what you had done
to try to make the life that you have lived,
and they took in that view.
And they looked to the right and saw what you had done
to try to make the life that you have lived,
and they took in that view.
They took it all in.
And in their estimation
they found all of it,
their view over all of it,
the sum of all of it,
to be fair.”
Source: Fairview
“Once well underground, you know exactly where you are. Nothing can happen to you, and nothing can get at you. You're entirely your own master and you don't have to consult anybody or mind what they say. Things go on all the same overhead, and you let 'em, and don't bother about 'em. When you want to, up you go, and there the things are, waiting for you.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows: