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“Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.”

Ifs World Believe May Different Sometimes Hard Deals Wonder Knowing Mystery Willing Phones Encounters Frightening Disbelief Stressful Hang Ups

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.”

Mean Real Faces Ability Our Lives Mystery Endure Encounters Formulas Spheres Unconditional

Book:Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis

Source: Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis

“I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.”

Source: Heart Steps

“To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.”

Purpose Force Chance Events Mercy Phones Oneself Encounters Controlled Invitations Phone Calls Chance Encounters

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting. . . Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act.”

Way Want Kind Children Doe Problem Faces Fighting Natural Cry Taught Patterns Accepted All Kinds Encounters Hiding Avoidance

Author:Tarthang Tulku

“What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.”

“Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine.”

Opportunity Attitude Divine Encounters

Author:Susan W. Krebs

“When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve.”

Problem Smile Encounters

Author:Donald Curtis

“I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.”

Found Heaven Christianity Happened Changed Sake Encounters Things Change Changed My Life

Author:Lionel Blue

“A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.”

Men Mind Dies Force Memories Situation Lord He Man Difficulty Prejudice Fortune Encounters

Book:Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

“I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.”

Humans Government Feet Impact Giants Encounters Not Interested Misplaced

Author:Dave Eggers

“Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?”

Knows Mean Made Country States United Half United States Draws Encounters Texas Territory Mexico Generalization

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.”

Watches Exciting Encounters Close Encounters

Author:Bob Balaban

“I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.”

Thinking Special Effects Encounters Expensive Special Effects Close Encounters

Author:Bob Balaban

“There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.”

Kind Wish Fans Average Encounters

Author:Chester Bennington

“Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.”

Feelings Encounters Anti-american

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!”

Stories Home Parent Interesting Fiction Tree Feet Brother Bears My Brother Encounters Unconscious Listeners

Author:Sharon Creech

“Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.”

People Knows Sometimes Forget Too Much News Encounters Decent Friendly Fearful Suspicious

Author:Adrienne Clarkson

“In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.”

Stories America Film Opportunity Directors France Encounters

Author:Jean Dujardin

“Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.”

People Want Running Artist Chance Creative Streets Encounters Creative People Soho Chance Encounters

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.”

Ifs Want Believe Kids Jobs Goal Business Vision Doubt Wife Security Succeed Madness Following Temptation Encounters No Doubt Distraction Belive Hang In There

Author:Larry Flynt

“Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!”

“In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.”

Needs Believe Facts America Young Culture I Believe Sex Disease Folks Encounters Sex Education

Author:Piers Anthony

“If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?”

Ifs Children Happens Stars Nature Species Meaningful Encounters Richness

Author:Richard Louv

“If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.”

Ifs Made Problem Science Differences Walks Numbers Half Creativity Progress Streets Skills Tasks Asking Persistence Encounters Making A Difference Swim Academic Originality Cents Enquiry

Author:Hermann Bondi

“[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.”

Years May Self Individual Risk Danger Identity Activity Strategy Bounds Experiments Setting Chosen Settings Encounters Resolution Implications Risk-taking Self Identity Payoff

Author:Anthony Giddens

“What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.”

Mind Moments Values Literature Encounters

Author:Stephan Jenkins

“I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.”

Needs Heart I Can Two Sex Satisfied Burning Encounters Casual Two Hearts Burning Love

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.”

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