T Quotes
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“There is a real correspondence between biological and psychological masculinity and femininity on the one hand, and spiritual masculinity and femininity on the other. What one must bear in mind is that the Bodhisattva combines both. This may seem strange, but the Bodhisattva can be described as being psychologically and spiritually bisexual, integrating the masculine and the feminine at every level of his or her psychological and spiritual experience. This is reflected in Buddhist iconography. With some representations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas it is hard to discern whether the figure is masculine or feminine. This iconographical convention reflects the psychological and spiritual bisexuality of the Bodhisattva, and indeed of any spiritually developed person. The idea, or even ideal, of psychological and spiritual bisexuality is unfamiliar to us in the West today, but it was known to the ancient Gnostics, one of the heretical sects of early Christianity. The teaching was quickly stamped out by the Church, but an interesting passage has been preserved in a work known as the Gospel of Thomas, which was discovered in Egypt as recently as 1945. It isn’t an orthodox Christian work, but it consists of 112 sayings attributed to Jesus after his resurrection. In the twenty-third of these sayings, Jesus is represented as saying:
'When you make the two one, and make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the upperside like the underside, and (in such a way) that you make the man (with) the woman a single one, in order that the man is not the man and the woman is not the woman; when you make eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image; then you will go into the Kingdom.'
This is not the sort of teaching one normally encounters in church, but it is obviously of profound significance. In the context of Buddhism the idea or concept, and even the practice, of spiritual bisexuality features most graphically in the Tantra, where it is represented not just by the androgynous appearance of the Bodhisattva, but by the symbol of sexual union. Here, ksanti, the feminine aspect of the spiritual life, becomes transcendental wisdom, while energy, the masculine aspect, becomes fully realized as compassion. Thus in Tantric Buddhist art one encounters representations of a mythical form of the Buddha in sexual union with a figure who is sometimes described as the female counterpart to his own masculine form. These images are called yab-yum, yab meaning ‘father’ and yum meaning ‘mother’. They are sometimes regarded in the West as being obscene or even blasphemous, but in Tibet such symbolism is regarded as extremely sacred. It has nothing to do with sexuality in the ordinary sense; it is a representation of the highest consummation, the perfect balance, of ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’, wisdom and compassion. Although there are two figures, there are not two persons. There is only one person, one Enlightened person, within whom are united reason and emotion, wisdom and compassion.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism
“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.”
“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.”
“There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.”
“There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.”
“There is a real effort to bully women out of public spaces and offline with violent intimidation. That issue speaks not just to casual sexism, which is more common, but actual, violent hatred of women by some.”
“There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.”
“There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.”
“There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
“There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”
“There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.”
“There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.”
“There is a real sun in human life and a psychological sun! As long as the latter does not set, your life will always be sunny!”
“There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.”
“There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.”
“There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
“There is a reality in modern Western society whereby we are unable to look at ourselves truthfully, for we see something that causes us pain, distress, and a sense of shame.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“There is a reality mafia that makes a person live for real constantly contradicting realities in physical form so as to render this person sleepless, tired and abused and project a false reality behavior that has occurred from manipulation of everyone and everything, possibly by secret agents or secret undiscovered alien technology.”
“There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.”
“There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest.”
“There is a Reality which is Indivisible, One, Alone, the Source and Being of all; not a thing, nor even a mind, but pure Spirit or clear Consciousness; and we are That and nothing but That, for That is our true Nature; and the only way to find It is to look steadily within, where are to be found utmost peace, unfading joy, and eternal life itself.”
“There is a really great difference between confidence and pride. When you’re confident, it’s like, “I can do this.” But when you’re proud, it’s like “Only I can do this.”
“There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”
Source: The Sabbath
“There is a realm where the rainbow never fades”
“There is a reason and not a reason for everything.”
“There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.”
“There is a reason cases are tried in a court of law, not in the court of the public and not by the media, because details have to come out in excruciating and minute fashion, detail by detail, bit of evidence by bit of evidence.”
“There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent responses from some people, because only in Christianity is there an absolute right and wrong. People hate the Bible and Christianity because of the law of God.”
Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God
“There is a reason fairy tales most commonly end with happy endings. It is because nobody wants to face the realization of human depravity.”
“There is a reason for all things and all things have a reason.”
Source: The Third Buddha
“There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.”
“There is a reason for everything in life, and there is a season for everything in life, and if you are lucky to combine both simultaneously, then something magical happens.”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“There is a reason for everything, Opal. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.”
Source: Storm Glass
“There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.”
Source: Storm Glass
“There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet.”
Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“There is a reason God limits man's days.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.”
“There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.”
“There is a reason life has put you in the current circumstances,
Life will always test you, it will always try to make you stronger.
Life only wants you to be better then you were yesterday.”
Source: World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
“There is a reason people in America are disappointed and restless. If opportunity seems like it's been slipping away, that's because it has. And liberal progressive ideas have done exactly nothing to help.”
“There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.”
“There is a reason that the words natural, wholesome, and organic resonate throughout our culture today. Aim to be natural and truly who you are one-hundred percent of the time.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“There is a reason the Democrats have had only two Presidents since 1968 and have managed to lose control of both houses of Congress in recent years. There is a reason they keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And it's not fraud and it's not dirty politics and it's not stupid voters. It's the plain and simple fact that the majority of those who vote don't like them.”
“There is a reason the hunt is central to so many narratives. For all that humanity professes to delighting in its own sophistication, it longs for simplicity, for when the world can be deboned into binaries: darkness and light, death and life, hunter and hunted.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy”
Source: The Salt Grows Heavy
“There is a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.”
Source: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“There is a reason there is no such thing as a folk writer. But to be a writer you have learn what it takes to captivate a reader in order to make them turn the page. And in order to learn that, you have to read.”
“There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.”