W Quotes
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“When a person incarnates, there is a certain mission or purpose assigned by the Soul or Divine Sponsors to the Personality of that person. There is a budget of energy and Life-Force, assigned lifespan and allocated Spiritual Equity or good karma for that incarnation.”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“When a person indulges in sin, thinking that he has already done it before, it is like peeling one more layer of an onion because he has already peeled a layer. With each layer that is removed, the peeling becomes increasingly nonchalant, repetitive and brazen until he is naked with no sense of worth or self-esteem. In Rhuzbeh’s case, he peeled away rapidly.”
Source: Djinns & Kings: The Curse of Zoa
“When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being into the worst version of himself.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”
“When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load...I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.”
“When a person is connected to its true essence, there is nothing more rewarding than continuously developing it; there is no money that can buy the pleasure of putting into practice the talents each person has.”
“When a person is deserted, he learns by default, how to survive.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.”
“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“When a person is focused completely on self it is nearly impossible to be mindful of others at the same time. That is a contradiction for healthy communication, networking, and relationship building.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.”
Source: Sophia
“When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.”
“When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'”
“When a person is gone to next world, people grief most for the good that was not done.”
“When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.”
“When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.”
“When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.”
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.”
“When a person is sick or devitalized, their talents and creativity are not optimized. Therefore, managing and sustaining your vitality is a major important component of success and fulfillment.”
“When a person is strongest is not when she is strong for herself, but when she is strong for those she loves!”
“When a person is utterly vegetarian he can easily remember his past lives. His clarity is such that he can look into his past lives. He is not gross, his energy is not blocked, his energy moves easily. His river of consciousness can penetrate to the ancientmost times; he can go backwards as much as he wants.
The consciousness of a non-vegetarian is blocked - in many ways. He has been accumulating gross matter in himself. That gross matter functions as a barrier.
Pythagoras lived in India, lived the life of a vegetarian, meditated deeply, became aware of the past lives, could see himself moving backwards.
The awareness came through meditation and the awareness was based in vegetarianism...
And once you start moving into past lives, this life will be utterly transformed. Why?
Because once you see that all the stupid things that you are doing now, or wanting to do, you have been doing for many many lives... you have done those same things many times, and each time nothing was attained.
For example, if you are mad after money and then you remember that in the past life also you were mad after money and then you had succeeded, and you had become a rich man, a very rich man, and then you died... and all that richness and all that wealth was of no use. It was taken away by death, and you died as empty as ever, as poor as ever. And you remember even before that: you were a king and you had a great kingdom. And still you were frustrated, and still you lived in misery, and you died in misery. And again you are doing the same and hankering for more money? It will become impossible. The longing will simply fall flat on the ground. How can you go on repeating the same stupid thing again and again if YOU CAN REMEMBER? YOU can go on repeating the same stupidity again and again if you CANNOT remember.
The idea of reincarnation is not a philosophical idea: it is an experience, it is utterly scientific. People have remembered their lives.
When you have grown a little deeper into meditation... we are going to do all those techniques here too. But those techniques will require that you be absolutely vegetarian, otherwise you will not be able to go beyond THIS life. Your mind cannot move - it has to be so light, featherlight, that it can simply pass from one existence into another. And the lighter it is, the deeper it goes.
It can not only remember that you were a man in the past life - slowly slowly, you will remember that you have been animals. AND, sometimes, when the depth gross, you will remember that you have been trees, rocks.
You have lived for millennia in many forms.
And if you remember that once you were a fish, it will become difficult for you to eat fish.
Vegetarianism leads you into remembering your past lives. And KNOWING your past lives, you become more and more a vegetarian - because seeing that all are brothers and sisters, the whole existence, you cannot kill animals. It becomes simply impossible! Not that you have to prevent yourself: it simply becomes impossible.”
Source: Philosophia Perennis Vol2.
“When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“When a person lies to you once all you can think is what else. What else are they hiding? What other untruths have been said?
To your face, to someone else; behind your back. And how. How do you begin to clean out this room in your heart? Unearth the love? Wash the walls clean white?
Undo their stench from your blood.
Their stench from your skin.
And how. How do you begin to detach from them. And the you in them. And the I in us.”
“When a person life is a world of complaints, they carry that attitude with them, most things are never as
perfect as they desire. Most people understand, nothing is perfect, and look at the complainer as the seeker of attention or just selfish and unaware. No one likes a complainer. What happens is life's reflection will give this person something to really complain about. The attitude we show the world will
always return to us.”
“When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.”
“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”
“When a person looks through a colored lens, everything seems to be that color. If the lens is tinted yellow or blue, everything seems yellow or blue. A person who looks at life through the lens of gratitude will always find things to be grateful for.”
“When a person loses his purpose, he subjects himself to a free fall.”
“When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
Source: Complete Works
“When a person offers you everything they have, whether it be a mansion or their last piece of bread, the one who has less, is offering so much more.”
“When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.”
“When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!
Conversations aren't contests!
Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.”
Source: It's a Magical World
“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.”
Source: By any means necessary
“When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.”
“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among all the other creative personalities, feeding a hungry imagination through the vicarious reliving of each and every wild chapter that stirred his emotions, the whole while surrendering to a safe yet daring existence where any crazy, hopeful thing can and does happen. That's all.”
“When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".”
Source: A Way of Being
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”
“When a person really loves you, you can feel it. I'm not talking about the way YOU feel nor the way he/she feels towards you but the way he/she treats you. From their actions, you can feel their love.”
“When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.”
“When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.”
“When a person’s life is a world
of complaints, they carry that
attitude with them, most things
are never as perfect as they desire.
Most people understand, nothing
is perfect, and look at the complainer
as the seeker of attention or just
selfish and unaware. No one likes
a complainer. What happens is
life's reflection will give this person
something to really complain about.
The attitude we show the world will
always return to us.”
“When a person's WHY is strong enough, victory is inevitable.”
“When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.”
“When a person says they are tired, they have more to give. When a person is done, there is no turning or looking back. There’s no such thing as looking over your shoulder. Bury it, leave it be, and let it rot.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.”
“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”
“When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.”
“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”