W Quotes
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“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.”
“When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.”
“When you compromise the word of God without remorse, it is an indication that you were never deeply rooted in Jesus Christ. Peter was remorseful. Luke 22:54-62.”
Source: Spiritual Wisdom from Jesus Christ: Volume One
“When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what emerges is a dramatic shift - at least in the eyes of others, from whom you've hidden the truth. So, dropping out of high school was like that for me. I was fine, I got straight As, I had friends, and then boom, I was like, I'm done.”
“When you conceive something in your mind, know it is a fact, and that there can be no question about its manifestation.”
Source: The Secret
“When you concentrate much on the faults, you shall be at fault. When you always focus on the solutions, you shall always be a solution. Don’t just find faults; be a solution digger! You shall definitely meet some faults in your journey to digging for a solution, but mind your true purpose: solution! Don’t just find faults; be the solution to the problems you see!”
“When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.”
“When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiritual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.”
“When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.”
Source: Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.”
“When you confess your mess, you invite everyone else to say “ME TOO!” That’s connection.”
Source: Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want
“When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also”
“When you confront a mocker or rebuke a wicked person, expect resistance and retaliation. The wise man says, 'Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you' (Proverbs 9:8). The heart of the foolish will cling to its folly, and 'a reproof enters deeper into a wise man than a hundred lashes into the heart of a fool' (Proverbs 18:2, 27:22). Be cautious, yet persistent, in correcting those who err, for some will 'not listen to the words of the wise, but whoever listens to reproof gets wisdom' (Proverbs 12:1).”
“When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.”
“When you confront, it yields more benefits than disadvantages.”
“When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem”
Source: The Denial of Death
“When you connect to a compelling cause you feel all your inner resources has been targeted to help you achieve your cause.”
Source: Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
“When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.”
“When you connect to the energy of RA, you connect to the source of all things. Love flows through you freely. You connect to everything in a union of souls”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
“When you connect to your source, you can create anything you'd like to have in your life.”
“When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.”
“When you connect with people, they want to help you.”
“When you connect with your soul, embrace love and become happy. Then, you
stop looking for it and accept it through the simple things in life.”
Source: With Love, Maria: Powerful affirmations for your Heart, Mind and Soul
“When you conquer something, it means you fought for it.”
“When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.”
“When you consciously decide to be in a good mood every morning, you create an atmosphere of joy and peace. Practice mood control daily... it will then become a habit. Don't put the control of your emotions in the hands of others.”
“When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.”
“When you consciously feed your subconscious mind with your dream relevant thoughts and emotions repeatedly on a regular basis then it can be the catalyst for experiencing a huge positive shift in all areas of your life.”
Source: Attracting A Specific Person: How to Use the Law of Attraction to Manifest a Specific Person, Get Back Your Ex and Manifest a Vibrant Relationship.
“When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.”
“When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.”
“When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.”
“When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.”
“When you consider atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, their strongest arguments are “moral arguments” against the existence of God. Why are children sold through human trafficking for prostitution? Why does God allow hurricanes to destroy the innocent? Why do babies die? In reality, these are not arguments about God’s existence, but rather arguments about the goodness of God. The atheist first creates scandal regarding God’s goodness, and then rejects Him.”
Source: Thomas Aquinas in 50 Pages: The Layman's Quick Guide to Thomism
“When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.”
Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners
“When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast.”
“When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you”
“When you consider marriage as a sacred act, you don’t think of breaking it up for any reason. Once you have made up your mind to stay with your partner, whatever it takes, you shall find a way to resolve all disputes that crop up between you two.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights.”
“When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.”
“When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.”
“When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.”
“When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.”
“When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.”
“When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.”
“When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.”
“When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.”
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Source: Night and Day