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“Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...”

People Should Process Mystery Empty Transformation Unpredictable Unprecedented Buckets

Author:Marilyn Manson

“If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Desire Process Goes On Empty Rate Sake Chiefs Vain Infinity If Then

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.”

“Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.”

Mind Book Today Process Empty Educational Halls Filling Examination Education Today

Author:Sai Baba

“Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”

Real Sex Process Love Is Computer Program Empty Aids Software Execution Engineers Packages Without Love Correctness Verify Verification Sex Without Love

Author:Woody Allen

“It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.”

Mind Littles Real Process Meditation Empty Surprise Disappear Witness Gaps Rooted Alchemy Little Time Watchers Meditation Mind

Author:Rajneesh

“In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.”

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.”

Process Letting Go Anxiety Empty Abundance

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Three Process My Own Listening Judgment Empty Prejudice Come Up Hearing Interviews Exhausted

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.”

People Way Giving Should Process Space Empty Leaving Unexpected Empty Space Attrition

Author:Charles Bukowski

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.”

Writing Art Important Book Ideas Ends Hands Process Creativity Magic Materials Empty Gold Important Things Void Material Things

Author:Alan Moore

“Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.”

Source: What's So Great About Christianity