P Quotes
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“Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.”
“Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.”
“Paradise is to love many things with a passion.”
“Paradise is too perfect for humanity.”
“Paradise is where I am”
Source: Candide
“Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.”
“Paradise Isle by Stewart Stafford
In superstitious guidance,
I discovered your shallows,
Ingénues' on naked dunes,
Edenites of Paradise Isle.
Tragedy and chance are but pirates;
One welcome, both shocking rogues,
Am I a castaway or a sleepwalker?
Let motivations as explorers gather.
Leaving footprints only we can see,
The wet sand, a camouflage ally,
We quit the beach and head inland,
As crabs in shade to the waterline crawl.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“Paradise isn’t always empty.
Sometimes it’s waiting.”
~ THE DOOR · Threshold Series”
“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
“Paradise
This bridge of moon on bended knee above us
keening twilight and the snake that is
your tongue has taught itself to sing, to sing.
My hand so heavy with your hand, your eyes
brimmed curve to crease with grief, and you chant
Bread will be the body of a king,
someday. With a voice like every nectarine,
so lovely and so bruised, how I am tempted
to you, famished as a rite of spring
mid-winter underneath the tricky snow,
broom-cold, tripping fig over foot, husky
and nervous as the glassy oxen, staggering.
Remember, I am but a rib. I curve
into your spine and wrap about your heart,
fleshless as marrow, your vitreous darling.”
Source: Heaven
“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”
Source: Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
“Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.”
“Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Paradise will be a kind of library”
“Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours”
“Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.”
“Paradossalmente (ma solo a prima vista), più tecnologia realmente utile si aggiunge in hotel, più umana diventa l’esperienza dell’ospite, perché si libera il personale da tutti questi compiti ripetitivi, riposizionandolo dove risiede realmente il valore aggiunto: ovvero nel prendersi cura degli ospiti.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.”
“Paradox: Feelings of jealousy are triggered by the body trying to protect us from potentially losing our partner. However, the way excessive jealousy manifests itself ends up driving our partner away…”
Source: ERROR: mini-series: Bodily Programs and Romantic Relationships
“Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.”
“Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?”
“Paradox is at the heart of the mysteries of witchcraft. I believe that paradox is what allows the conditions for the witch to create magick. By creating a paradox, we essentially overload the processing of reality by breaking the rules. In a way, we’re jamming the system like throwing a wrench into the cogs, where we can then enter in our own codes for when we’re done and the system and its processes of reality resume.”
Source: Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.”
Source: Searching for Schindler: A Memoir
“Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.”
“Paradox likes contradictions with exits.”
“Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name "Paradox".
Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!”
Source: Very California: Travels Through the Golden State
“Paradox: When the intellectual part of the brain, is merely a servant in the hands of the animal part of the brain.”
Source: Error: The Hidden Programs of the Human Body - Break Free from Autopilot and Redefine Conscious Living
“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,”
“Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.”
“Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.”
“Paradoxes are the only truths.”
Source: Misalliance
“Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.”
“Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.”
“Paradoxical Humans: capable of sending Rockets and Satellites into Space, yet wobble on their own Planet on Wheels and Tires.”
“Paradoxically, a society that, in the face of starvation in great areas of
the world, allows a large part of its machinery to stand idle, that shelves
many important inventions, and that devotes innumerable working
hours to moronic advertising and to the production of instruments of
destruction—a society in which these luxuries are inherent has made
usefulness its gospel.”
Source: Eclipse of Reason
“Paradoxically, America appears to many gays not as an imperialist nation, but since Stonewall as a symbol of their liberation.”
Source: Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
“Paradoxically, deep down, people with dominant Egotist Imposters often have compromised self-esteem, even though they seem to brim with self-centeredness and what masquerades as self-love.”
“Paradoxically, it is often when risking death that one feels the most alive.”
Source: SO MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE: The Science of Happiness
“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.”
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.”
Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“Paradoxically, space creates time.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Paradoxically, the bigger problem arises regarding non-existence or nothingness. How do we define Nothingness? What is Nothingness? If there is Nothing, then we affirm or try to confirm Nothingness (Nonbeing), which means that we establish or attempt to confirm the existence of non-existence or nothingness.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Paradoxically, the kind of leading we want to offer is the opposite of taking control.
Instead, it begins with accepting responsibility for getting support for our inner world and healing process to such an extent that the need for control recedes in favor of trust in the inherent healing capacity that is awakened when the necessary interpersonal sustenance arrives.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Paradoxically, the reformed churches embraced the criminalization of sin and shifted towards individualism as a means of freeing people from the onerous demands of the Church. The Church unwittingly propelled Western society into secularism and inaugurated the immanent frame, which remains our primary mindset in the West. Jesus endeavored to free people from a centralized, hierarchical, religious system of laws that benefited the few. As the Church became a principality, it created just such a system.”
Source: Vocatio: Imaging a Visible Church