W Quotes
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“When we free up the resistance within us we are able to approach any situation from a place of clarity. When you enter into any situation with a particular stance it is primarily filtered through your perspective. Even if you try and run through the scenario of how your partner may feel and what they may be thinking something will be missed because you are only filtering it through your level of understanding.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When we fucked—and we would—I would not allow him to gently have me while Orinoco Flow played softly in the background. (I may have exaggerated the throw-pillows-and-rose-petals of his relationships, but not to the point of improbability.)”
Source: Jarring Sex
“When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.”
“When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.”
“When we fully realize who God is, we learn that each of us is a child of the King!”
“When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.”
Source: Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose
“When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.”
Source: Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose
“When we function out of fear, we end up “doing the God thing” without God. Driven by fear, we opt for control and control numbs us to the value of relationships – especially our relationship with God.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.”
Source: Prayer, the Great Adventure
“When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. [...] But I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice. And what is the result? An abominable religion has settled among you. A man can now leave his father and his brothers. He can curse the gods of his fathers and his ancestors, like a hunter's dog that suddenly goes mad and turns on his master. I fear for you; I fear for the clan.”
“When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.”
“When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.”
“When we ge closer to the divine, benediction starts happening. When we go away from the divine, benediction starts disappearing.”
“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living as we believe God wants us to live. If we make an intentional exception for a special treat or for a diversion, that might not be a big deal. But if we step off the best path, we're tempted to detour into more unwise choices. In that case, your decision does matter.”
“When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.”
“When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“When we genuinely want to listen, we are bound to hear, as well as be heard”
“When we get a job, we mortgage for salary”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“When we get a new idea — or remember an old one – and we cling to it and try to spread it with evangelical zeal, then we no longer have control over it. In fact, it's the idea itself that possesses us and becomes our new master. And we end up blindly serving the idea and forgetting the cause that brought it to us in the first place.”
“When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'”
“When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.”
Source: Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
“When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”
“When we get business networks to function similarly to neural networks and mycelium networks, we'll have a better world.”
“When we get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different... There's opportunity to see the texture of that person.The characteristics that make them unique.”
“When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.”
“When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.”
Source: Old Rose and Silver
“When we get comfortable, we stop growing. When we stop growing, we start dying.”
“When we get down to basics, humans are just big bags of irradiated chemicals.”
“When we get down to basics, we find that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is nothing more than a corrupt group of scientists trying to build a known biologically toxic project atop a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
“When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.”
“When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.”
Source: Spiritual Revival
“When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.”
“When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.”
Source: Releasing the Rivers Within: The Exhilaration of Utter Dependence on God
“When we get hurt, our bodies immediately start trying to heal that hurt. This works for emotions as well. If we were scarred socially, by an incident of rejection or bullying, we immediately start trying to heal. Like pus comes out of wounds, emotions flow from psychological wounds.
And what do we really need at that moment? When we are out of that dangerous situation that scarred us, and we become triggered by some little thing - what do we need? Do we need someone to look at us and say, "Wow, you're really sensitive, aren't you?" or "Hey, man, I didn't mean it like that."? Do we need someone to justify their actions or tell us to take it easy, because the situation didn't really require such a reaction?
And, from ourselves, do we really need four pounds of judgment with liberal helpings of shame? Do we need to run away, to suppress, to hate our "over-sensitivity" to situations that seem innocuous to others?
No. We do not need all of these versions of rejection of a natural healing process. You would not feel shame over a wound doing what it must do to heal, nor would you shame another. So why do we do this to our heart wounds? Why do we do it to ourselves? To others?
Next time some harmless situation triggers you or someone around you into an intense emotion - realize it's an attempt at emotional healing. Realize the danger is no longer there, but don't suppress the healing of old dangers and old pains. Allow the pain. Don't react, but don't repress. Embrace the pain. Embrace the pain of others.
Like this, we have some chance at healing the endless cycles of generational repression and suppression that are rolling around in our society.
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.”
“When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.”
“When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.”
“When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.”
“When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.”
“When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.”
“When we get married, we promise a person the rest of our lives, "Til death do us part". But what if in another life we promised someone forever? What if ten lifetimes ago we promised someone lifetime after lifetime after lifetime? Think about it. Maybe that's why marriages fail when they do fail. Because maybe promises are never really broken.”
“When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.”
Source: A Walk On The Wild Side
“When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.”
“When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and went to the best parties, got in just enough trouble, listened to our music too loud, smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much and laughed too much and listened too little, or not al all.”
Source: Before I Fall
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”
“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.”
Source: The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography
“When we get out of this, I'm gonna shove my fist right into your ass, hard and fast Not in the sexual way! In the 'I am pissed off' sort of way.”
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.”
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way