W Quotes
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“We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.”
“We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.”
“We might presume that a social contract should be a lengthy legal document with many provisions and clauses. But the real authority of a social contract does not derive from a piece of parchment, but from a few simple truths that we all abide by, truths that implicitly structure the relationship between individuals and the institutions we create to serve us. At its heart, a social contract defines what we owe one another.
Recall the terms of the Standardization Covenant:
Society is obligated to reward you with opportunity if and only if you abandon the pursuit of personal fulfillment for the pursuit of standardized excellence.
If we want a democratic meritocracy for ourselves and our children, then we must each choose to ratify a new social contract:
Society is obligated to provide you with the opportunity to pursue fulfillment, and you are accountable for your own fulfillment.
The supreme institutional obligation under the Dark Horse Covenant is to provide Equal Fit. The supreme individual obligation under the Dark Horse Covenant is Personal Accountability.”
Source: Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
“We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.”
“We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.”
“We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.”
Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers
“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.”
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We might rush into love, but none of us should be in a rush to fall out of it.”
“We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.”
“We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active, work project.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“We might say that the body is part of the creative ground of existence, but we are not bound by that structure in the full creative sense. Our spirit is bound to our bodies, as its creative ground, but surpasses it through freedom and choice. The body is present in all our choices, but as total persons, we have the freedom to be other than what culturally accompanies a male or female body.”
Source: The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
“We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'.”
“We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.”
Source: On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future
“We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.”
“We might summarize our present human situation by the simple statement: that in the 20th century, the glory of the human has become the desolation of the Earth and now the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human.
From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually-enhancing human/Earth relationship.”
“We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on that service, the more certificates of performance he gives me. The more certificates I earn, the greater my claim on the goods my fellow man produces. That's the morality of the market. In order for one to have a claim on what his fellow man produces, he must first serve him.”
“We might think of loosh as the form of human energy consciousness adopts as it slides toward being unconscious through traumatization and other negative forms of behavioral engineering.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“We might think of metaphor as a device belonging to the poetry of words but metaphor can also be non-verbal – visual, spatial, experiential… Metaphor is essential to the poetry of architecture too.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“We might think that the deeper we dig into our own being, the further we travel from God; that’s one way Christianity has regarded the inner self, as a source of sin and separation from God. Quakers, however—and other holistic mystics through the ages—believe that at the deepest level of our beings lies Kelly’s Last Rock, the preexistent Word of John’s Gospel (John 1:1–5). Mental and emotional commotion obscure this bedrock, but someone practiced in disciplined silence spends more and more time absorbed in this Ground of Our Being.”
Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
“We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.”
“We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.”
“We might wish that folks were reasonable and logical and compassionate; But the sad fact of it is they're not, and they never will be, God bless them.”
Source: The Nanotech Chronicles
“We might wish to remember that regardless of how meticulously we dress up small ideas, the closet of our fears never has enough clothing to ever make them great.”
“We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.”
Source: Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen
“We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.”
“We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“We minister the Word of God. The proclamation of the Gospel comes after individuals have opened their hearts to God and turned from themselves to others. Only then are they truly ready to hear and benefit fully from the Word of the Lord.”
“We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.”
“We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.”
“We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.”
“We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.”
Source: Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Handbook for the Complete Sales Professional of the Nineties
“We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.”
“We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.”
“We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“We miss-punctuate life
since we stopped using semicolons
our days too fast-paced
pauses are time that feels stolen
We jump from comma to comma
on the to-do lists in stock
till the body halts in a burnout:
an inkless pen’s full stop”
Source: The Purpose Ladder
“We miss the old times where nature was neater, where people were gentler, where fruits tastier, words more trustable, hearts more real, and where people’s looks were more meaningful!”
“We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.”
“We Miss You Mom
Our hearts will heal, these tears of Love.
It’s been days, we haven’t seen the sun.
Dear Lord, we all want to cry.
You’re with dad, so it makes us strong.
It’s not the same without your smile.
We know you’d want us to carry on.
Try your best, as we all were one
Together, will love, like you taught us.
Our hearts will heal, but will need time.
To see the moon and feel the sun.
As your memories rest on our face.
God has taken you to a better place.
We Miss you, Mom.”
“We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.”
“we missed you at the wedding," he said.
"Yeah." puck shrugged. "I was in Kyoto at the time, visiting some old kitsune friends. We were travelling up to Hokaido to check out this old temple that was supposedly haunted. Turns out, a yuki-onna had taken up residence there and had scared off most of the locals. She wasn't terribly happy to see us. Can you believe it?" He grinned. "Course, we, uh, might've pissed her off when the temple caught fire-you know how kitsune are. She chased us all the way to the coast, throwing icicles, causing blizzards...the old hag even tried to bury us under an avalanche. We almost died." He sighed dreamily and looked at Ash. "You should've been there ice-boy.”
Source: Iron's Prophecy
“We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.”
“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.”
Source: What It Is Like To Go To War
“We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.”
Source: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
“We mistakenly believe our cultural behaviors are the good, right, and respectful behaviors. What convinces us of that misperception? Our Filters.”
Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters
“We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.”
Source: The Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Forgiveness, Compassion, and Kindness
“We mistakenly equate flattery to friendship and criticism to opposition; one should evaluate truth first and then judge, for flattery and criticism are primarily opinion.”