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“Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred”

“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.”

Suffering Hurt Love You Aversion

Author:Hermann Hesse

“If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion.”

Ifs Mind Hands Christian Evil Attention Sweet Holy Approach Worthy Smell Burning Remove Orthodox Within You Scent Nurture Coal Foul Back Again Aversion Supervision Savour Burning Coal

Book:The homilies

Source: The homilies

“Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.”

Long Home Hands Father Fields Youth Locals Stopping Vivid Long Life Bicycle Recollection Cycling Aversion Mint Mint Juleps

Author:Tennessee Williams

“And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.”

Parent Five Worst Boring Nine Bored Routine Worst Things Aversion Being Bored

Author:Christian Bale

“I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.”

Men Love Firsts Age Rooms Class Middle Intellectual Inspired Curiosity Artistic Middle Class Justify Bottles Disorder Espionage Mistrust Aversion Punctuality Intellectual Curiosity

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds from a real passion inherent in our nature, it is sufficient to demonstrate that we are born with a repugnancy to the killing, and consequently the eating of animals; for it is impossible that a natural appetite should ever prompt us to act, or desire others to do, what we have an aversion to, be it as foolish as it will.”

Men Should Real Desire Passion Born Natural Animal Wise Impossible Eating Killing Foolish Guilty Sufficient Folly Appetite Animal Rights Inherent Aversion Prompts Not Guilty

Author:Sylvester Graham

“The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.”

Way Mind Feelings Ability Accepting Land Pure Empty Caring Sensitive Zero Blank Brightness Reacting Aversion Empty Mind

Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice goodheartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.”

Matter Dream Spirituality Quality Practice Essentials No Matter What Intention Tricks Attachment Compassionate Quality Of Life Aversion

Author:Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

“When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”

Giving Wells Water Enemy Arms Rivers Decided Necks Throwing Destroying Wraps Aversion

Author:Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

“What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.”

“Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.”

Two Feelings Desire Friendship Friends Breasts Aversion

Book:The Poems of Jonathan Swift ...

Source: The Poems of Jonathan Swift ...

“Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.”

Pleasure Aversion

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.”

Needs Writing Years Firsts Felt Crime Involved One Day Overcoming Autobiography Aversion

Author:Gunter Grass

“I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.”

“My only aversion to vice, is the price.”

Vices Aversion

Author:Victor Buono

“The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.”

Thinking Years Wanted Wonderful Terrible Positively Aversion Berkeley Formative Years

Author:Stanley Donen

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