W Quotes
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“When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.”
“When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.”
“When we as civilized adults dream, we work our way back to the primitive organization that humans knew for millions of years before language and civilization. Then we use our unconscious and power of imagination to camouflage the dream in imaginative ways.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!”
“When we as humanity realize that chilate change is an economic opportunity, we'll see more progress in one year than we did in the past ten years.”
“When we as humanity realize that climate change is an economic opportunity, we'll see more progress in one year than we did in the past ten years.”
“When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.”
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
“When we ask for advice, we're really looking for confirmation of what our soul already knows.”
“When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.”
Source: How to Wish
“When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.”
“When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.”
“When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.”
Source: Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
“When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.”
“When we ask Jesus for help and choose 'flight' over 'grounded,' He builds within us a loyalty to God that overcomes all opposing forces.”
Source: Heart Renovation: A Construction Guide to Godly Character
“When we ask leaders and improvement professionals what the most difficult aspect to making change is, they nearly always say, "Sustaining.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.”
Source: The Trumpet of Conscience
“When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.”
“When we ask ourselves what is an economy; I think the best place to find the answer to that question is in a forest. Go and sit in a forest and observe with all of your sensory faculties, and meditate there. And while you're observing and meditating, ask yourself questions about everything.
And if you want maybe hit a few puffs of a certain herb while you're meditating there. And you'll find out exactly what an economy is. And you'll also find out exactly what business is. And all of the economic and business concepts like capital allocation and liquidity and service and profit and growth... It'll all start to make more sense as you sit there meditating in that forest.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“When we ask ourselves, “What is it that makes one work of art good and another bad?” we might initially wonder if there is any satisfactory answer. Upon mature consideration, however, we can at least conclude with a reasonable degree of certitude that since the function of art is to unearth some particle of truth, good art must be good in consequence of its revelatory capacity, and bad art must be bad, conversely, because of its failure to engender revelation.”
“When we ask somebody if they believe in God, we expect them to believe or not in what we think our idea of God is. But what if God is not what we think it is? Many believe that some undetectable higher Force they do not understand governs the Universe. This kind of belief is more rational because there is something they believe in, but religious books do not describe it.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“When we ask someone out, and are unsure whether we will hear them say yes, we are taking a leap of faith mixed with doubt. When we believe our spouse that they did not cheat, it is a leap of faith. We doubt in the absence of evidence, or when our trust in ourselves, and others are disrupted in some ways.”
Source: The Leprechaun Delusion
“When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.”
“When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.”
Source: The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner
“When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.”
Source: Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition: A Holistic Approach to Eating and Living for Optimal Health, Weight, and Wellness
“When we assist Him in His mission of saving souls, we too will be rescued in the process.”
“When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.”
“When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.”
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.”
Source: Nothing Extra: Notes On the Zen Life
“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.”
“When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.”
“When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.”
“When we attempt to isolate another we only isolate ourselves. We are all God's children and there are no favorites. God is revealed to all who seek; God speaks to all who will listen. Be still and know God.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.”
“When we awake most morning we think back to the past, and situations that we had. Were they handled correctly? What could have been done different? The past is gone. In reflection, we should be looking forward to the promise of a new day, and brand new situations, releasing our minds of the past, and the questions that weigh on us.”
“When we awaken each morning, we see around the globe what appear to be Fascism’s early stirrings: the discrediting of mainstream politicians, the emergence of leaders who seek to divide rather than to unite, the pursuit of political victory at all costs, and the invocation of national greatness by people who seem to possess only a warped concept of what greatness means. Most often, the signposts that should alert us are disguised: the altered constitution that passes for reform, the attacks on a free press justified by security, the dehumanization of others masked as a defense of virtue, or the hollowing out of a democratic system so that all is erased but the label.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“When we awaken the love for God, that love naturally extends toward every living being. Also, the concept of Krishna and Radha, the masculine and feminine aspect of the one supreme God, was so inclusive that it touched my heart. So when Prabhupada came, I was already following his path. But it was when I saw his compassion, concern and deep wisdom, that I accepted him as my guru and decided to try and assist him. I felt that was where my real home was.”
“When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.”
Source: Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening
“When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.”
“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”
Source: No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
“When we balance each thought with the opposite contained within it, we cause our wish to be implanted within the divine fertile matrix.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.”
Source: Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace
“When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.”
Source: Young Men Shall See
“When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.”
“When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.”
“When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition