“Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.” IfsNeedsTryingDoeHas BeensPurposeDiesLanguageHappeningsTheologyLatinManipulateUnsuccessful Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.” MindSpiritualPurposeBeliefChurchReligiousDependsMembersSurvivalHappeningsInstitutionsStructureAwakeningSeparationScalesUnconsciousExclusiveSpiritual AwakeningBelief SystemsCongregationLarge Scale Author:Eckhart Tolle
“When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"” NeedsPurposeFightingHealingStruggleConflictHappeningsWho I AmBeing TruePulling Author:June Singer
“The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.” NeedsWellsDonePurposeUniverseGraceSonHappeningsWeaknessCrossesAdversityReliefBoresGroundedGlorificationPurpose Of God Author:John Piper
“We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.” HardWholeBodyPurposeHappeningsPatternsCellsGlimpse Author:Terence McKenna
“In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.” KnowsBodyPurposeCertainBreakDyingHappeningsYogaClaimsCleanConfusionAfter DeathShamanism Author:Terence McKenna
“When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.” MomentsStoriesRememberPurposeStuffFocusHappeningsSupremeBunchThat Moment Author:Taron Egerton
“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.” PeopleIfsShouldReasonHappensAblePurposeSidesHurtCitiesMorningMillionsEffectsStrangeTerribleTenHappeningsOrdinaryEternityDelightThings HappenBurningBreathingLive LifeRememberedIt HurtsOrdinary PeopleWizardsTerrible ThingsStrange ThingsSide Effects Author:Diane Duane