W Quotes
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“We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.”
“We can trust Christ. He never changes.”
“We can trust God's heart even when we can't trace His path.”
“We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.”
“We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We can trust the motives of a malicious person.
It is a forgiving person who we should be wary of.”
Source: The Uncharted Mind
“We can try and push eachother away, we can try and deny what we feel but when two hearts have connected and two souls have been reminded of love there is simply no way fate can keep us apart.”
“We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.”
“We can try to keep jobs here in America rather than seeing them go overseas.”
“We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.”
Source: An Unspoken Hunger
“We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.”
“We can turn off the twenty-four-hour coverage and take a walk and a deep breath and return home to wrap our arms around our kids, pets, lovers, or friends.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.”
“We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.”
“We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.”
“We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?’ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, you’re part of the majority of people who want a charter.”
“We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.”
Source: Apocalypse
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.”
Source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
“We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.”
Source: Always Something There to Remind Me
“We can understand whether a person looking at a magnificent view is a wise person or a slave to her mind by looking at whether she is looking at the view itself or something that the view evokes in her mind! Focusing on the moment itself is an important part of wisdom!”
“We can understand why one of the titles given to Jesus is that of ‘prophet.’ Jesus is the last and greatest of the prophets, the one who sums them up and goes further than all of them. He is the prophet of the last, but also of the best, chance. With him there takes place a shift that is both tiny and gigantic – a shift that follows on directly from the Old Testament but constitutes a decisive break as well. This is the complete elimination of the sacrificial for the first time – the end of divine violence and the explicit revelation of all that has gone before. It calls for a complete change of emphasis and a spiritual metamorphosis without precedent in the whole history of mankind. It also amounts to an absolute simplification of the relations between human beings, in so far as all the false differences between doubles are annulled – a simplification in the sense in which we speak of an algebraic simplification.
Throughout the texts of the Old Testament it was impossible to conclude the deconstruction of myths, rituals and law since the plenary revelation of the founding murder had not yet taken place. The divinity may be to some extent stripped of violence, but not completely so. That is why there is still an indeterminate and indistinct future, in which the resolution of the problem by human means alone – the face-to-face reconciliation that ought to result when people are alerted to the stupidity and uselessness of symmetrical violence – remains confused to a certain extent with the hope of a new epiphany of violence that is distinctively divine in origin, a ‘Day of Yahweh’ that would combine the paroxysm of God’s anger with a no less God-given reconciliation. However remarkably the prophets progress toward a precise understanding of what it is that structures religion and culture, the Old Testament never tips over into the complete rationality that would dispense with this hope of a purgation by violence and would give up requiring God to take the apocalyptic solution by completely liquidating the ‘evil’ in order to ensure the happiness of the chosen.”
Source: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
“We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”
“We can unwittingly undermine the friendship by imposing our adult standard of justice instead of the child’s standard of forgive-and-forget.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.”
“We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.”
Source: How to Wish
“We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.”
“We can use everything that happens to us to create something new and beautiful.”
“We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.”
“We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?”
“We can use our art to become political, to become something you want to talk about. We make clothes, but we have the chance to change a generation as well. We have to remember that fashion changed the roles of men and women: When Yves Saint Laurent was putting pants on a woman, he was not only doing that - he was assuming the fact that a woman can wear pants like a man. It's all the codes that I think fashion pushed so much to change the world, and today it's what I'm trying to do in my own way.”
“We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.”
“We can use the romantic relationship as a microcosmic example. Until you really understand the other person and where they're coming from and you understand yourself and how you contribute to things, you can never make that relationship better. And I think sometimes people don't understand how much these things are related.”
“We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere.”
“We can use your room if you like, but...' He was leaning against his open bedroom door. 'Either your room or mine- but we're sharing one from now on. Just tell me whether I should move myh clothes or yours. If that's all right with you.'
'Don't you- you don't want your own space?'
'No,' he said baldly. 'Unless you do. I need you protecting me from our enemies with your water wolves.'
I snorted. He'd made me tell him that part of my tale over and over. I jerked my chin toward his bedroom. 'Your bed is bigger.'
And that was that.
I walked in to find my clothes already there, a second armoire now beside his. I stared at all the open space around us.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“We can validate trauma by acknowledging it exists (instead of pretending we are okay or burying it) and by taking the necessary time to work through it. It isn't easy, but its the path to freedom and libration from constant suffering.”
“We can view a world order rushing toward collapse with no more concern than the outcome of a horse race; we can see injustice, crime, and misery in their most terrible forms all about us and, if we are not directly affected, register the emotions of a scientist studying white rats in a laboratory... In my opinion, this is a confession of complete moral and spiritual bankruptcy.”
“We can view politics as an art form, since political action shapes human beings destiny to be an ambassador of goodwill and humanitarian activities. Alternatively, we can perceive politics as a crime because it can give vent to collective passions of hatred and barbarism. Americans must decide whether to muster our collective political powers to end warfare and curb corporate exploitation of natural resources or pursue nationalism and perpetuate barbarous ruination of the environment. The outcome of these decisive challenges will alter our national consciousness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We can wait for that inner inspiration to come or we can actively cultivate it. The choice is ours. Choosing to actively cultivate the inner inspiration of the heart is Heartfulness.”
“We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.”
Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“We can walk our road together if our goals are all the same. We can run alone and free if we pursue a different aim. Let the truth of Love be lighted. Let the love of truth shine clear. Sensibility armed with sense and liberty with the Heart and Mind united in a single perfect sphere.”
“We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.”
“We can walk to ‘nowhere’ and think that ‘nowhere’ is ‘somewhere.’ For such are the roads paved by men. Yet, the humility of a manger and the magnificence of a cross constructed a road to the ‘everywhere’ that forever abolished the ‘nowhere’ of men.”
“We can walk together to change the status quo.”
“We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.”
“We can walk with God daily by agreeing with God and His Word And replacing self-focused thinking with a God-focused mindset.”
“We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.”
Source: Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood
“We can want peace, but unless we are spiritually at peace ourselves, we dont mean it. It is our thoughts which keep that part of the universe where each of us stand out of or in balance.”
“We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom