W Quotes
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“What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.”
“What is really not fair about life is the fact that we have to pay the cost of our weaknesses which we didn't chose nor we had the option to refuse. Apart from that life is very fair.”
“What is really scary is running naked inside yourself, revealing the real you.”
“What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.”
“What is really special about dogs is they're really similar to even human toddlers.”
“What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!”
“What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.”
Source: The Game of Life and How to Play It
“What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“What is reason now was passion heretofore.”
“What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of
love.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.”
“What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.”
“What is recognized to be character in an individual is usually called culture in an organization.”
Source: Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
“What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that the incarceration system works, and the way that even the police are treated, and the way they're paid, and the way they're trained, and the whole educational system.”
“What is regarded physically as light is metaphysically thought. Light is phenomenal thought. Thought is noumenal light. Light is sensible thought. Thought is intelligible light.”
Source: Castalia: The Citadel of Reason
“What is religion? A cloud in the sky. I live in the sky, not in the clouds, which are so many words held together. Remove the verbiage and what remains? Truth remains.”
Source: I am that
“What is religion? Religion is to be in tune with the whole. Religion is to be in love with the whole. Religion is to be together with the whole.
Religion means to listen to our own authentic being. Religion means to listen to the silent voice within ourselves, which will always lead us right.
Religion means to realize that God is already available to you, both from the inside and from the outside. Religion means to realize that we are already one with God. Religion means the understanding and awareness that makes your doors open and allow God to
enter in.
The purpose of reöigion is to dissolve in silence. When you lose yourself for the first time you are yourself. When the ego disappears, we become awareness, joy and spontaneity. We become a vehicle, an instrument for the whole.
The three dimensions of existence, the three faces of God, are life, love and light. The first dimension is just the beginning of a great journey, a great pilgrimage. Those who think that life is the end miss the whole point of life. The majority of people Take life as the end. What happens then is that people become greedy for life. Their life becomes full of greed, possessiveness and violence.
Life should not be taken for granted. The people that take life for granted are the worldly people and these are the people who have made the world ugly and violent. These are the mundane and mediocre people. They become politicians, hoarders and exploiters. Their whole existence seems to be directed towards one thing: survival. Life lived without love and light is only one-dimensional. Love means introducing a new dimension into your life, which is the dimension of the heart. Love means to introduce joy and delight in your being. Now you don't live only on the one-dimensional horizontal plane. Now you live in two dimensions: life and love. Your life becomes rich.
Only by going through the fire of love, one becomes a heart. It is the fire of love that creates the soul. Not having a heart is what makes life meaningless, but millions of people live without a heart. The heart is the spiritual centre of our being. It is only the heart that
can bring joy to our life.
Never be afraid of love because it is love that will bring you closer to your heart. And it is the heart that can open the doors to God. God can enter only through the heart. God is hidden in our own heart. God is within ourselves, but we seek him outside of ourselves. We seek him in the churches, the temples and the mosques, and we go on missing him. God is not in the scriptures either. God emerges out of your heart. Love people, love trees and love animals. Never miss an opportunity to love. The more you love, the closer you come to God.
Love is the bridge to God. How do love and meditation relate to each other? How do relationships and aloneness relate to each other? How do God meet you in different forms in the outside world, and how do God meet in you in the inside world as your own self? In the outside world, in love and relationships, God is meeting you in many different forms. In the inside world, in meditation and aloneness, God is meeting you as your own self.
Balance is needed. Love and meditation and relationships and aloneness are a balance between the inner and outer world. Love and meditation, the inner and the outer world. Love and meditation and the inner and outer the world is needed to create a balance. Together these two poles create a wholeness; together they will heal you. Make these two poles part of meditation, so that love and relationships are good to create wholeness.
And in the outside world, God is meeting you in many different forms. And when you feel the need again to be alone, God is meeting
you as your own self. God is everywhere, so there is no need to choose.
There is also a third dimension: light. Light means introducing meditation in your life. It means”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“What is religion these days if not to serve political policies and not those of the spiritual.”
“What is religion to the mystic? The religion of the mystic is a steady progress towards unity. How does he make this progress? In two ways. In the first way, he sees himself in others, in the good, in the bad, in all; and thus he expands the horizon of his vision. This study goes on throughout his lifetime, and as he progresses he comes closer to the oneness of all things. And the other way of developing is to become conscious of one’s own self in God, and of God in one’s self, which means deepening the consciousness of our innermost being. This process takes place in two directions: outwardly, by being one with all we see, and inwardly, by being in touch with that one Life which is everlasting, by dissolving into it, and by being conscious of that one Spirit being the existence, the only existence.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the common people. If you take away certain social customs, they think you have taken away religion. For me it means purifying it.”
“What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.”
“What is remarkable is not the media's interest in growth rates, but its near-silence about the fact that the growth process is so biased, making the country look more and more like islands of California in a sea of sub-Saharan Africa.”
“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.”
“What is remembered is what becomes reality.”
“What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.”
Source: The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)
“What is repressed is never, of course, annihilated: it will always strive to return, in disguised forms, in dreams, or as neurotic symptoms. If Freud was correct—and I see no reason to suppose otherwise—we should expect to find the traces of repressed homosexuality in every film, just as we should expect to find them in every person, usually lurking beneath the surface, occasionally rupturing it, informing in various ways the human relationships depicted.”
Source: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
“What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.”
“What is repulsive about children - all children - is not that they are not yet adults, but that they are already adults - whining, self-absorbed, demanding attention, unable to care for themselves, throwing tantrums when things don't go their way. Far from what we tell ourselves, children are the most concise expressions of humanity. At least children are unaware of this.”
Source: Infinite Resignation
“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.”
“What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.”
Source: Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
“What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.”
“What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.”
“What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.”
“What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.”
“What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination”
“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship.”
“What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.”
Source: Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity
“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”
“What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.”
“What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.”
“What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?”
“What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?”
Source: The Vagrants: A Novel
“What is revolutionary today is that we're using precision-guided munitions. And instead of building individual weapons, we are building an industry and a philosophy, the culture of precision. You saw Desert Storm. Precision works.”
“What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous”
Source: Gargoyles: A Novel
“What is right and what is wrong should be seen seriously, even with close friends; we must judge the cause with diligence of what is right or not.”
“What is right can never be impossible.”
“What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.”
Source: The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel
“What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you.”
“What is right for the family is right for Britain.”
“What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.”