W Quotes
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“We are born atheist and we remain so until someone lies to us.”
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
“We are born borderless until we touch”
Source: The Moral Judgement of Butterflies
“We are born by accident into a purely random universe.”
Source: The Stochastic Man
“We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
“We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.”
Source: Dans un mois, dans un an
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
“We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.”
“We are born entrepreneurs, true entrepreneurs of ourselves! Who defines the success or failure of our companies, it's us! Do not blame God for this, for even seeking it depends on you.”
“We are born every day and we die every day.”
Source: In Limbo
“We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.”
“We are born for cooperation”
Source: Meditations
“We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.”
“We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.”
“We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.”
Source: A Little Book on Love
“We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.”
“We are born free.”
“We are born free, but we are not allowed to live in freedom by the society. Everybody is born in freedom, but everybody lives in a prison. Everybody lives as a prisoner and dies as a prisoner.
The most spiritual act in life is to live in freedom. Meditation is the way to regain your freedom. Meditation is the way to destroy all the barriers and bondages that have been created by the society, the state, the establishment, the status quo and the church.
The society do not want you to live in freedom, because a free person cannot be controlled, manipulated and exploited. A free person cannot be reduced to a thing, a possession.
The society do not believe in man, the society believes in machines, because machines are obedient and do not rebel. Man can rebel, which is why each child is chained in such a way that very few people are able to live a life of freedom.
Meditation is a declaration of freedom. A meditator has to be alert, aware, adventurous and courageous to live in freedom. A meditator's search is for freedom, and when he is totally free he knows God.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
“We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.”
Source: West of Here
“We are born healers and this is our superpower”
“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”
Source: The Four Loves
“We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.”
Source: Archangel
“We are born in a state of inflation. In earliest infancy, no ego or consciousness exists. All is in the unconscious. The latent ego is in complete identification with the Self. The Self is born, but the ego is made; and in the beginning all is Self. This state is described by Neumann as the uroborus (the tail-eating serpent). Since the Self is the center and totality of being, the ego totally identified with the Self experiences itself as a deity. We can put it in these terms retrospectively although, of course, the infant does not think in this way. He cannot yet think at all, but his total being and experience are ordered around the a priori assumption of deity.
This is the original state of unconscious wholeness and perfection which is responsible for the nostalgia we all have toward our origins, both personal and historical.”
Source: Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche
“We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.”
Source: Gentleman's Agreement
“We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
Source: Just One Day
“We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."”
Source: Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God
“We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.”
“We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.”
“We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency to get attached to impermanent experiences causes sorrow, lamentation and grief, because eventually we are separated from everything and everyone we love. Our lack of acceptance and understanding of this fact makes life unsatisfactory.”
“We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice.”
“We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.”
“We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“We are born into cultures that elevate unattainable ideals and train us to see our bodies as projects to fix, rather than homes to cherish.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.”
“We are born into one life, taught another, expected to live a third, yet only by choosing the life we truly wish to live do we escape pretence.”
“We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation.”
Source: Journey to Joyful: Transform Your Life with Pranashama Yoga
“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”
“We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.”
Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus
“We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.”
“We are born knowing death.”
“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.”
Source: The Shape of Mercy: A Novel
“We are born knowing how to cry, but it takes another to teach us how to cry well and with purpose. As we watch our elders cry, we are learning. Sister June taught me how to grieve with my body. She taught me how to feel the tears on my face and not wipe them away.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.”
“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.”
Source: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression
“We are born male. We must learn to be men.”
Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love