O Quotes
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“Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
“Our entire lives are made up of moments and the tiniest pieces of right now.”
“Our entire lives – including the choice of profession, the choice of where to live, etc. – are centered around our search
for love. We might be immediately aware of it or only recognize it in retrospect. Why is romantic love so important for us
humans? Let us consider what are the main needs of a human animal and other animals and compare them.”
Source: Love, Demystified
“Our entire lives we witness individuals, the ones who break some of the most culturally sensitive moral codes, ruined permanently by the media - i.e. shamed ruthlessly by the masses - i.e. dragged horribly by the village. While this is often intended to serve as a deterrent for the rest of us not to do anything too stupid, many of us choose to do stupid things anyway; and surely it is because the lot of us regard it simply as a challenge to bravery and a temptation to try to rise above or sneak past the law, to outsmart the justice system: I'm afraid the notion 'It'll never happen to me' is one of mankind's greatest hits.”
Source: Healology
“Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.”
“Our entire purpose is to solve the ultimate problems of existence. The task of the meditators and the mindfulness advocates is to flee from every problem, solve no problems, and become animals, devoid of consciousness, untroubled by judgment. They dream of living non-judgmentally in the moment. That’s what cows do. The message of Eastern mysticism and New Ageism is Become a Cow!”
Source: Zarathustra's Out-of-Body Experience: How Humans Become Angels
“Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.”
“Our entire system, both technical and mental, tends towards oneness, identity and totality, at the cost of an extraordinary simplification. And the whole of our metaphysics and all our neuroses chart the evils and confusions that ensue from that simplification.
But duality is indefectible.
It is totality that falters in the more or less long term.
Any political, economic, moral or mental system that achieves this even virtual totalization, that achieves this kind of perfection, either automatically fractures or duplicates itself to infinity in a simulacrum of itself. Everything that comes close to its definitive formula or its absolute potency can only repeat itself indefinitely or produce a monstrous double - whether it be terrorism or clones.
There is never any equilibrium state or state of completion that cannot suddenly be destabilized by a process of automatic reversion.
Everything which offends against duality, which is the fundamental rule, everything which aims to be integral, leads to disintegration through the violent resurgence of duality - or in conformity with the principle of evil, whichever you prefer.
It is duality and reversibility which everywhere govern the principle of evil. It is duality, liquidated everywhere, conjured away by all possible means, that restores an absence and an emptiness that are generally submerged by a total presence. It is duality that fractures Integral Reality, that smashes every unitary or totalitarian system by emptiness, crashes, viruses or terrorism.”
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.
This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.”
“Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there’s strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion.”
“Our entire universe is but a snow globe in a giant's hand.”
“Our entrepreneurship isn't capitalism or communism; it's practical results centred around community wellbeing and sustainable development.”
“Our environment is like the foundation of our house. A solid foundation provides stability and support, while a shaky foundation can make us feel insecure and unsteady.”
Source: Panic Proof: The New Holistic Solution to End Your Anxiety Forever
“Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.”
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.”
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”
“Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.”
“Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”
“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
“Our epoch does not love itself.”
“Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.”
Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies
“Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.”
Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art
“Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.”
Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species but then one has a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely.
-DR. Bertrand Legmam Cooper,
Problems of Science and Society,
Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900”
Source: Splendor
“Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.”
Source: The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse
“Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians. A revival is among other things a return to the belief that real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.”
“Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.”
“Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.”
“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
“Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.”
Source: Doctor Who: Last Man Running
“Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure,
and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would
attain Buddhahood.”
“Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.”
“Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.”
“Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.”
Source: Building Better Families: A Practical Guide to Fostering Connection, Values, and Growth
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.”
Source: Pragmatism: Human Understanding
“Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.”
“Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.”
“Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.”
“Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.”
“Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.”
“Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.”
Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
“Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.”
“Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.”
“Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could fit into our "buddy system." The way we talk about Him, the way we pray, and, more strikingly, the way we live shows that we have somehow lost our sense of being appropriately awestruck in the presence of a holy and all-powerful God. It's been a long time since we've heard a good sermon on the "fear of God." If God were to show up visibly, many of us think we'd run up to Him and high-five Him for the good things He has done.”